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During World War II, the U.S. government's Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) undertook one of the largest public investments in applied R&D in U.S. history, entering into thousands of contracts with firms and universities to perform research essential to the war effort. Using...
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Concerns are mounting over the potential for weak future growth as the Korean economy faces a wide range of structural issues including an aging society, a crisis in key regional industries, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to these concerns, the Korean government has established innovation growth...
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Due to the structural low-growth around the globe and the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution, industrial and regional policy see a paradigm shift. Industrial policies shift from ‘picking or backing winners’ to ‘matching winners’. ‘Matching winners’ industrial policy aims to...
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International cooperation in support of a global energy transition is on the rise. Initiatives and venues for multilateral cooperation are complemented by growing bilateral engagement to foster international lesson-drawing and exchange. Official development assistance (ODA) in the energy sector...
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In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are...
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Local public technology centers, administrated by local authorities, engage in technology transfer to small local firms. Current structural changes in regional innovation systems force them to redefine strategy to contribute to regional development. Based on the comprehensive dataset to describe...
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We study innovation policy in a region in which the members of the creative class engage in Schumpeterian competition and thereby extend aspects of the recent analysis in Batabyal and Yoo (2017). Using the language of these researchers, the creative class is broadly composed of existing and...
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The aim of this article is to discuss the essence and purposefulness of such strategy on the example of the "Regional Innovation Strategy for Lower Silesia Voivodship (region) for the years 2011-2020" and to analyze the changes of the selected indicators that characterize the level of innovation...
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Smart specialization has become a hallmark of the EU's Cohesion Policy. Envisaged as a bottom-up initiative identifying local knowledge cores and associated competitive advantages, the operationalization of smart specialization has been rather limited, as a coherent set of analytical tools to...
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