A multi-agent simulation embodying a theory of innovation networks has been built and used to suggest a number of … policy-relevant conclusions. The simulation animates a model of innovation (the successful exploitation of new ideas) and … it is possible to reproduce qualitatively the characteristics of innovation networks in two sectors: personal and mobile …

Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a … framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the … important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation. Instead, a comprehensive economic theoretical approach is needed which …

Although the area of innovation economics dates back to the early twentieth century with the seminal contributions of … sector economics that puts innovation systems in the eye of public policy decision makers. Although well researched in … academia in recent years, the role that innovation networks play in driving successful processes of innovation and …

privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The … collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. -- Innovation Policy ; Subsidies ; R&D ; SMEs ; International Collaboration … ; Treatment Effects ; Innovation Performance …

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating … of the firms R&D and total innovation expenditures net of those costs due to the environmental innovation. The estimated … number of R&D projects and investments in non-innovation-related assets. Likewise, for firms with subsidy …