research questions and in the development of analytical work in policy-oriented innovation studies. Despite the fact that … Evolutionary and Innovation Studies theories have offered new ways of incorporating policy, little explicitness in this regard has … conceptual framework for the design and implementation of innovation policies …

policy makers have initiated serious efforts towards crafting a national system of innovation for the country, especially … since 2001. This paper undertakes a detailed review of the efforts that are being made to create this system of innovation …

This paper applies an innovation system framework to analyze the development of a natural resource-based system of … innovation within the wine cluster in the Niagara Peninsula in Canada. A variety of policies shape the parameters (financial …, fiscal, legal) within which opportunities for innovation open or are constrained and choices are made. Two of these have led …

of industrial structure, innovation dynamics and economic performance. Our emphasis is on contributions which might have … policy relevance when it comes to the design and implementation of innovation-related policy. This review provides the …-Economic Research (TSER) Programme in the area of national systems of innovation. Finally, the paper explores a number of directions for …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending rather than RD … spending is used to predict innovation in the CDM model. Second, we assume that a firm simultaneously innovates and chooses …

This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of innovation and how they are presented for use in …, which raises questions about the definition of innovation. This is followed by a review of plans for the evolution of … innovation indicators and their use over the next few years. These plans, national and international, are diverse and this leads …

This study suggests that individual time is an important factor that needs to be considered in innovation research. We … output such that after a certain point the innovation-enhancing role of work time is taken over by individual free time …

Zipfs law. However, the size distribution of patent subclasses departs from a pure power law, and is shown to be closer to a … shifted power law. At a higher aggregation level patent classes, the rank-size relation deviates even more from a pure power … suggest a shift towards incremental more than radical innovation. …