Despite the increasing global integration of economic activities, technological specialisations of national innovation … systems and comparative strengths associated thereby only change slowly. Germany and Japan, whose innovation systems similarly …. This originates from the path-dependent development of innovation systems and resultant complementary institutional …

institutions, of the application of the four essential dimensions of the Radar of innovation: the offers of the institution (what … constructed and approved on a 5-point Likert scale to characterize the use of innovation in the healthcare institutions; the … each of the dimensions of the innovation radar was carried out using exploratory factor analysis (AFE) and Cronbach's alpha …

This study analyse the technical efficiency in terms of innovation of the firms in the service sector in the Uruguayan … economy. Therefore, we use data from the 2010-2012 Innovation Activities Survey of the National Agency for Research and … Innovation (ANII). In a first stage, we estimate the level of efficiency of each company through a Data Envelopment Analysis …

The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …