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 …

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 …

Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between … different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of … collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing together science and industry. Building on a large data set using project …

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the ?mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems?. For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical … of these issues the concept of a regional innovation system is presented in some detail and an overview of results from … recent research on regional innovation systems is given. The paper then discusses basic policy options and names a number of …