investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping … stifling broad sectoral innovation. We conclude with speculations regarding how this oligopolistic future might be averted …

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 …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …

; Innovationserfolg ; Marketinginnovation ; organisatorische Innovation ; Produktinnovation ; Prozessinnovation ; Umsatz …We examine the innovation success of predominant small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely around Jena … (Thuringia) by using the data sets of the research project "KompNet 2011 – Factors determining the success of regional innovation …

This paper explores the links between open innovation and the emergence of a phoenix industry - the low carbon vehicles … innovation" approaches in driving the sector, for example noting that smaller firms can sometimes innovate more quickly …

Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …