low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation …. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that the role of social capital in innovation is different in East Asia …-based incentives are the most essential driving-force of innovation in the East Asian countries, whereas social trust does not play a …

policy change might be expected to have on innovation, and what the optimal policy would be. We consider four main channels … that make the impact of NCAs on innovation ex-ante theoretically ambiguous: incumbent innovation incentives, entry … impact on innovation, in contrast to what is often assumed in policy discussions. The impact is not only strongly …

Given the role that innovation plays as an engine for economic development, we examined the enabling factor of … innovation. A sample of 40 African countries over the period 1996-2012 was employed; and our baseline equation was estimated … effectiveness and regulatory quality are two institutional measures that have the most equivalent impact on innovation. This result …

policies. Some regional disparities are high and need to be reduced. High regional dispersion in education and job outcomes … barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …

While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have …' participation in initial VET on their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and instrumental variable … regressions with entropy balancing show that the impact of VET activity on innovation is more ambiguous than postulated. Overall …

This paper discusses key priorities and policy recommendations to accelerate Slovenia’s digital transformation. The … government’s ambitious digitalisation strategy (Digital Slovenia 2030 Strategy) aims at putting Slovenia among the five most … effects of a declining labour force. While Slovenia performs well in several areas of the digital transformation, further …

The main aim of the paper is to assess the innovation gap between the national innovation systems (NIS) of the European … Union (EU) and the average level of innovation of EU economies. The study takes into account NIS identified in the … fields of NIS and the innovation gap is reviewed, the definitions and selected classifications of NIS around the world are …

Innovation is nowadays seen as an essential success factor in achieving economic prosperity and competing in markets … with developing and changing technologies while revealing those countries' innovation perspectives. The article assesses … the innovativeness of the economies of selected European Union (EU) candidate countries based on the Summary Innovation …