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This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …
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innovation framework. …
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In this paper we present a vision for the course Europe should take in its research and higher education policies in order to fully live up to the expectations of its citizens to provide a safe, comfortable, affluent and sustainable environment in this period of considerable financial restraint...
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In this paper, a wide range of innovation indicators are analysed in order to describe the innovation behaviour of … manufacturing firms in LAC using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as … understand the main characteristics of innovative firms and to gather new evidence with regard to the nature of the innovation …
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In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives in Quebec, using manufacturing firm data from 1997 to 2003 originating from R&D surveys, annual surveys of manufactures and administrative data. The estimated price elasticity of R&D is -0.10 in the short run and -0.14 in the long...
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its innovation system and the interplay between the firm and the non-firm sector. We argue that, in any economy, when … generated a sub-optimal outcome. Market forces did not result in the western-style innovation system, but a hybrid one, with …-down" supply-driven allocation of resources and a reliance on external (but domestic) network of sources for innovation and capital …
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This paper provides a comprehensive review of more than 120 social science studies in nanoscience and technology, all of which analyze publication and patent data. We conduct a comparative analysis of bibliometric search strategies that these studies use to harvest publication and patent data...
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This paper explores the self-organising principles of horizontally-integrated innovation networks. It isshown that such …, dynamic and highly non-linear processes. The paper argues thedevelopment of a self-organisation perspective of innovation … the micro-macro processes driving dynamic innovation systems.Section 1 of the paper identifies the four key principles of …
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Politicians understand that a conventional double dividend policy - defined asreduction of greenhouse gas emissions and unemployment through taxation of energy and CO2emissions and subsidization of wage costs - and the aim of keeping international competitivenessof all sectors intact may be...
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The Schumpeterian theory of long waves has given rise to an intense debate on the existenceof clusters of basic innovations. Silverberg and Lehnert have criticized the empirical part ofthis literature on several methodological accounts. In this paper, we propose the methodologyof Poisson...
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