Though we live in an era of rapid innovation, the United States has introduced comparatively few commercial innovations … within the past decade. Innovation shortfall contributes to weaker trade performance, decreased productivity growth, lower … wages and many other economic woes. This study provides insightful recommendations for developing enhanced innovation …

'This book presents Latin America's innovation systems in a new theoretical and political light. The focus is upon how … innovation processes can become inclusive; a major challenge for the non-egalitarian Latin American countries. The analytical … innovation systems and innovation policy and it is of interest for innovation scholars as well as for policy makers responsible …

Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in …

locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how … knowledge in corporate innovation processes, and addresses the challenges of embeddedness. -- The expert contributors draw on … between innovation in companies and regional studies. Significantly, the book also establishes a link between two important …

strongly appeal to policy-makers in science, technology and innovation policy. It will also benefit students and academics … interested in innovation, science, technology and innovation policy, the economics of innovation, as well as the history and …

1. Innovation and creativity : statement of the issues / Filip De Beule and Ysabel Nauwelaerts -- 2. International … longitudinal perspective on research and innovation in Belgium / Filip De Beule, Dieter Somers and Ilke Van Beveren -- 5. Which … capabilities from competence-creating subsidiaries to headquarters of the MNE / Katarina Blomkvist -- 10. Innovation initiative …

Contents: 1. An Introduction: Mapping the field(s) of sustainable innovation / Frank Boons and Andrew McMeekin -- Part … I: Visions of sustainable innovation -- 2. How does innovation sustain 'sustainable innovation'? / Benoît Godin and … Gérald Gaglio -- 3. Innovation in the circular and the performance economy / Walter R. Stahel -- Part II: Sustainable …