classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for … private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public …

importance to the study of the innovation process, only recently research has started to attempt to trace researchers …’ intersectoral mobility When looking for ways to improve the transfers from science to innovation, most of the attention in the … universities to innovation based growth, should take a long-term perspective for developing an industry-science eco …

This contribution focuses on the heterogeneity in innovation capacity within Europe across its different Member State … crisis affected this trend of convergence? We then take a look at the research and innovation policies which the EU countries … have in place and try to assess whether these policies match with the heterogeneous EU countries’ innovation capacity …