Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labour in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to … leading centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical “first world” activity …. There is, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture. In this, broader …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … enhances the likelihood of having both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms� productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … development of trust and overcoming spatial and organizational barriers. Using a supermodularity approach, we focus on potential … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … the likelihood of having both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on …

We review the literature on national innovation systems. We first focus on the emergence of the concept of innovation …). After this, we discuss how the notion of innovation systems filled a need for providing a broader basis for innovation … policy. We conclude with some perspectives on the future of the innovation systems literature. …