capacity building in the origin country through knowledge transfer, innovation and technological change. The paper specifically … examines the needs, expectations and delivery of knowledge through the TRQN project in Afghanistan. …

creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …

governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

Resources for Invention (1962), are so relevant in today’s knowledge-driven economic paradigm. Focusing on the papers …’ application to current global policy debates on information/knowledge and intellectual property, they argue that while the context … has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve …

mainly by the firm, then diffusion of informal knowledge is considered to be the main driver of the innovation. The idea is …This paper tries to quantify the effect of diffusion of informal knowledge on the innovative performance of European … firms using data derived from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey. When firms are asked whether or not they have introduced …

" to "universities of innovation." Policy makers and universities themselves see that one of their major roles is … supporting industrial innovation and thus economic growth. We argue that this rests on a mis-cconception of the nature of … innovation and the value of universities. We argue that a more appropriate function for this institution is as the "university of …