The fact that Europe is lagging behind in comparison with its main competitors in the research and innovation … finally the follow-up communication of the Commission presenting a broad-based innovation strategy for the EU. …

essential role in transforming their national innovation systems so that they can be more adaptable to economic development. The … innovation activities. Balancing import of technology and indigenous R&D effort is another major theme. Innovation capability … influence on choice of innovation at the firm level, i.e., the decision at firm level in terms of indigenous R&D or import of …

innovation and firm performance. Based on the industrial economics literature and the optimisation model, R&D competition, R … innovation compared with R&D competition. However, profit-maximising firms do not prefer the R&D competition strategy. They … with respect to the firm's investment in R&D. The social cost of R&D cartelisation is a loss of product innovation, and the …

Despite the increasing global integration of economic activities, technological specialisations of national innovation … systems and comparative strengths associated thereby only change slowly. Germany and Japan, whose innovation systems similarly …. This originates from the path-dependent development of innovation systems and resultant complementary institutional …

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …