investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in knowledge-based capital could be made a more dynamic source of growth and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains …

innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …

well as intermediate) across borders. At the other side, Global Innovation Networks (GINs) refer to the transfers of …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

European Innovation Champions during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We distill 10 management principles representing key … "European Innovation Champions" successfully absorbed and reacted to the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five different … actions and decisions that allowed the European Innovation Champions to manage each paradox. This report provides policymakers …