SMEs new arenas to engage in what we may call are “global innovation” activities so as to gain, retain, and further … strengthen the competitive position. This pressure to go for global innovation is enhanced by given socio-demographic factors, e … carried out in the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg in Germany to identify barriers to innovation in selected industries and to …

inextricably connected with both business- and economics-driven dimensions of innovation. In fact, the phenomenon of a foreign …-owned R&D facility implies that a company innovation system must in some way integrate with a regional innovation system. A … enabling a comparison of these innovation environments. The second step was to examine the characteristics of the foreign …

This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …

While catch up theory assumes that innovation takes place in a linear models andthat path dependant trajectories … characterizes the innovation process, "innovation take off"rests on the premises that innovation systems need strong policy impulses … from governmentfor innovation to effectively take place. Innovation take off is the prerequisite for innovationsystems to …

challenges. The increasing interest for activities that have as result innovation seems to be the best option for each … participant at the productive actions on the market. The knowledge based economies have as base innovation, research, education …

competition. Innovation has become the common goal of all economic entities, being the way for a company to achieve something …

competition. Innovation has become the common goal of all economic entities, being the way for a company to achieve something …