The International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research held its 13th annual conference in Ravello, Italy in June 2009. The theme of the conference was the bioeconomy,and this topic was addressed through research presentations from academia, government, and industry. Numerous...

Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut substantially, which can be achieved by energy supply technologies with lower emissions, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, fairly...

Maritime and marine activities are getting significant attention from European policy as a domain that encompasses economic sectors of traditional relevance and new ones of fast growth. This short communication presents the results of a survey applied to maritime and marine organizations in...

This paper investigates the essence of entrepreneurial universities, as well as the major theoretical approaches to their analysis. The paper reveals the main stages in the development of the concept of entrepreneurial university, the analysis of the linear model of innovation and the "Triple...

The research of long-term dynamics of innovative potential is conducted in the preprint. The technique of the detection of regional features of the formation of conditions promoting innovative activity is offered. The theoretical general equilibrium model taking into account the diffusion of the...

Work contains analysis of following factors of formation of innovation based economy: education, science; competitiveness of industrial production, especially engineering; borrowing innovations as a result of integration in world scientific and technological space; investment and risks connected with...

This paper dwells on the main theoretical aspects of the innovation infrastructure creation. The international experience of making and conducting the most effective policy aimed at identifying and overcoming bottlenecks in the work of the innovation infrastructure at different stages of...

In most modern Western and Russian studies as clustering mechanism for implementing the innovation process is considered as an effective tool for sustainable economic growth. Nevertheless, the significant role of social capital and interactive network interactions in the formation of clusters...

There is an urgent problem of formation of the special sector of economy, which would focus on the development of fundamentally new for the existing market of goods and production innovation of new technical developments, new technologies, new solutions and new management methods resulting in...

Transformation of the Russian economy from export-raw material to the innovation type of development conforms to the objective requirements to improve its competitiveness (including the financial sector of the economy) and proceeds from the substantial development objectives on the basis of...