-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

, and experimental work. All studies deal with the innovation effects of public procurement, that is, the purchase by … governments of goods and services. The idea that public procurement can stimulate innovation originates from the seminal work of … Joseph Schumpeter and Jacob Schmookler, which suggests that innovation is sensible to general demand conditions. However …

, Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation, führen dieses Interesse an öffentlicher Beschaffung als innovationsförderliches …-amerikanischen Small-Business-Innovation-Research-Programms – innovative Lösungen von der Idee bis zur Marktreife (und einer etwaigen …

the presence of innovative firms. Therefore it is hardly surprising that fostering innovation activities has become one of … the main topics on the political agenda. In most cases innovation policy is, implicitly or explicitly, associated with … action concerning innovation policy and demonstrates the conflicting goals resulting from the different angles policies are …

of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). Descriptive statistics indicate that the rate of innovators is quite similar … deeper rooted in the underlying innovation systems than the existing literature may assume. …

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …

the region in generating new knowledge. The efficiency measure is constructed by relating regional R&D input and output …