analyzed the developments of robotics innovation. This paper closes this gap by analyzing how innovation in robotics is taking … located in the US, Europe, but increasingly also in the Republic of Korea and China. The robotics innovation ecosystem builds … significant role in supporting robotics innovation, in particular through funding, military demand, and national robotics …

The need for continuous sustainable innovation reflects a way in which firms overcome inertia and respond to changes in … the external environment. In manufacturing firms, the primary source of innovation comes from product-related innovation … (product innovation) and technology-related innovation (process innovation). Although economic forces have encouraged the …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …