Books on innovation have proliferated in the last quarter of a century, during what the author describes as 'the Schumpeterian Renaissance'. This volume provides an authoritative account of many of these new developments and represents the foundation of much ongoing research on innovation. This...

This paper reports a study to test whether the linkage mechanisms between basic research and industry that are evident in large countries were also observable in a small one. The Republic of Ireland has experienced a period of rapid industrial and economic growth and now enjoys per capita...

In the field of R&D policy at least, reality, theory and therefore the needs of evaluation users seem to have moved well ahead of evaluators' conceptual apparatus. The way we think about both innovation and how knowledge is produced has moved towards a systems perspective, while much of the...