questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …

, innovation. Endogenous growth theory has long suggested that human capital lead to greater innovation and, through technology … innovation and diffusion, contribute to economic growth. However, there is little evidence on the role of human capital in … innovation. Using the Chinese provincial data from 1997 to 2006, we show that workers’ tertiary education is significantly and …

the methodology proposed by the European Commission in the study about the “European Innovation Scoreboard 2007 … of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …

-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no … national innovation rates. Its survey will show that, although a specific domestic institution or policy might appear to … explain a particular instance of innovation, they generally fail to explain national innovation rates across time and space …

economic development. Knowledge-based economies are founded on increasing specialization, research, innovation and learning … training, innovation, information infrastructure, the institutional regime. This contribution will focus mainly on one of those …

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection in terms of its impact on innovation and technology transfer, as well as economic … surveying the theoretical and empirical literature linking the protection of IPRs to economic growth, innovation and technology …

entails more entrepreneurship spillover. Moreover, the innovation only affects positively entrepreneurship spillover in …