The paper aims to investigate the main characteristics of institutions, as well as some of their more conspicuous … what is called the other social factors (or components). The article tries to describe the relationships among institutions … and other social factors, in addition to contrasts and similarities among institutions in different levels, and in …

detect favourable areas that spur higher technological change and, as a consequence, human development. The main finding is … platforms of institutions and communications systems, infrastructures, legal systems, economic governance and socio …-climate sources of fruitful patterns of the technological innovation and economic growth. …

sources of General-Purpose Technologies GPTs in a Schumpeterian world of innovation-based competition. Through an inductive …The fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is which economic subjects are the sources of …-driven innovation. International conflict is the context that spurs the GPTs, which are driven by global leadership of critical …