Global challenges for innovation in the mining industries / Alica Daly, David Humphreys, Julio D. Raffo, and Giulia Valacchi -- Recent trends of innovation in the mining sector / Alica Daly, Giulia Valacchi, and Julio Raffo -- Mining foreign direct investments and local technological spillovers...

People have been digging in the ground for useful minerals for thousands of years. Mineral materials are the foundation of modern industrial society. As the global population grows and standards of living in emerging and developing countries rises, the demand for mineral products is increasing....

It is now widely recognized that many of the central unresolved problems in economic policy, management and research turn on questions of knowledge. Increasingly, complex firms and agencies must ask, and answer, such difficult questions as: What is knowledge? Where is it? Who has it? Does the...

This guide has been conceived as a methodological guidance for policy-makers and implementing bodies on how to prepare for and how to design, draft and implement a national/regional research and innovation strategy for smart specialisation (RIS3). Rather than an all-encompassing, prescriptive...