This paper examines how two historically low-technology economies, Finland and Israel, assumed leadership in new, rapid innovation-based industries. The paper argues that Schumpeterian development agencies, the Finnish Fund for Research and Development and the Israeli Office of the Chief...

The term social innovation has become popular as an umbrella concept describing an array of social programs and initiatives deserving attention. Unfortunately, this flurry of social innovation activity has, as of yet, not led to the development of a comprehensive theory of social innovation....

This paper explores the benefits associated with the adoption of behavioral targeting (BT) and the advantages derived by its implementation with the paid search (PS) advertising. Using a unique and proprietary dataset on online investments across 20 industries we, first, examine the probability...