Innovation in the services sectors has been a rather neglected research area under the commonly held view that … manufacturing firms are the main drivers of innovation in developed economies. The rise of the service economy has redirected the … research agenda towards the potential of services firms to adopt innovation activity. Here we analyze the determinants of …

activities associated with the development of its innovation process. Innovation is a highly complex process, very contingent and … onerously demanding. With innovation as a key source of high economic performance, it is important to understand to what extent … the current economic crisis is to constrain the innovation of firms and thus, the process of wealth creation. The main …

In this paper we study the impact of ICT capital in developed countries during 1980-1995. We use Solow’s growth …

Eastern Europe since the mid-1980s, FDI is the primary form chosen by Western firms to enter the Hungarian market. The major … geographical and cultural proximity to Western Europe give the Central European countries a certain competitive edge compared to … roughly 45-50 per cent of the total amount of foreign capital invested in Central and Eastern Europe. These developments …

experienced tremendous economic growth, particularly in industrial and service sectors. Its GDP grew at close to 6 percent … effects. Others do not find evidence that the economic growth strategy employed by Indian Government has reached broad …

This paper is devoted to the analysis of evolution of innovation concepts, aspect and types. First emergence and … evolution of different aspects and concepts of innovation are analysed, then the development of innovation concepts from a … historical perspective and finally an overview given of types of innovation classifications developed in the literature …