This document analyses the nature of service R&D activity and growth. The role and significance of R&D in services has been growing rapidly recently, although in the context of services it is also important to note that much innovative activity in the service sector remains of a nonR& D and...

The service sector has a dominant role in the developed economies, accounting for about two thirds of employment and GDP (Eurostat, 1999). According to Eurostat, "Services are the only sector of the European economy that has generated jobs in the last two decades." Thus, between 1985 and 1997...

This report is an account of the relationship between the ERA development and German research and innovation policy (R&I policy). The report introduces what ERA is and how the activities and instruments at European level have fundamentally changed and broadened. It provides a discussion of key...

This paper revisits the quot;what causes innovation - market pull or technology push?quot; debate to argue that the conceptualisation is flawed and that the firm is the only quot;agentquot; capable of innovative action. The paper differentiates between quot;usequot;, quot;needquot; and...

This article investigates whether firms react to a radical technological substitution threat by a deliberate acceleration of innovation in their existing technology - the "sailing ship effect". There have been repeated claims that the effect has been significant as a source of innovation...

This article investigates whether firms react to a radical technological substitution threat by a deliberate acceleration of innovation in their existing technology - the 'sailing ship effect'. There have been repeated claims that the effect has been significant as a source of innovation...

This report is an account of the relationship between the ERA development and German research and innovation policy (R&I policy). The report introduces what ERA is and how the activities and instruments at European level have fundamentally changed and broadened. It provides a discussion of key...

Outsourcing of research and development (R&D) activities has become a major management issue for R&D and technical managers within firms. It has also been of growing concern to academics who are trying to chart the implications of the increasingly distributed nature of research and innovative...