The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between knowledge-based innovation in an economy and new firm creation or company bankruptcy, as outcomes of the entrepreneurial process. Based on panel estimations for 16 regions in Poland, each of six years (2003-2008), the...

During the last decade, the role and meaning of research and technology organisations (RTOs) and their contribution to the innovation potential of countries has been questioned. In this paper, RTOs are understood as organisations with significant core government funding (25% or greater) which...

Universities are today expected to contribute not only to education and knowledge production but also to development. This article contributes to debate the role of universities in the dynamics of innovation systems. A framework to analyse specific innovation systems is suggested, focusing...

The aim of this study was to investigate factors that led to increased success with open innovation. In particular, we explored two firm capabilities - relational proclivity and proactive market orientation - as connective capabilities that improved open innovation performance. Important to...

Innovation research has been widely concerned with defining the process of new product development and factors influencing innovativeness. On the other hand, the open innovation research also started to look at what are the environments where openness brings higher benefits. In this paper, we...

The global diffusion of new technology, the increasing use of Web 2.0 networking and cloud computing have enable organisations to exchange significant amounts of information and knowledge. The successful transfer of knowledge and innovation has become critical to organisational competitiveness...

To characterise the demand for innovation support of industrial companies within a system and thus delivering basic inputs for the design of proper policy measures for developing countries, the resource base for innovation has to be characterised. This paper demonstrates the characterisation of...

Innovation is driven by firms' ability to exploit their stock of or access to intellectual capital (IC). Thus companies need to integrate the management of IC, including both the up- and downsides of IC into the core of their strategic efforts. Taking the relevance of innovations for firm's...

For decades, research and development or R%D has dominated innovation policies. This paper considers the statistical categories supporting this representation. It argues that the acronym 'R%D' has weakened critical thinking and policies about innovation in Western nations. The categories...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential use of the cluster model in the context of developing countries. Although we know this is by no means a new issue, we are convinced that some contributions can still be added to the discussion. Particularly, we focus on two questions: the first...