The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge … Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland …

This paper explores the implications of a simple model of learning and innovation by firms. In this model R … learning and innovation, with learning responding to opportunities, innovation responding to learning and own R&D, and a stream …