Showing 11 - 20 of 766
Research on solar energy systems and materials has yielded promising opportunities for sustainable energy solutions, which do not only consider environmental issues but also allow aesthetic design possibilities. New requirements regarding the energy efficiency performance of buildings gave the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221852
innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171678
This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866882
dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … exogenous factors (Delmar, Davidsson, Gartner, 2003). In our work we assume that regional innovation performance (as a share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480851
ideas and projects. One of the consequences of the economic crisis is that many companies have reduced their innovation … differences across countries regarding the degree to which the economic crisis has affected firms' innovation investment. It has … been argued that national institutional settings and the structural characteristics of national innovation systems have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484504
Open innovation is key for innovators responding to major problems in the world, including energy, healthcare, water …-off companies as a channel of market introduction of new technology and responsible innovation. Although rich in technological … capital, reason why they need to limit their efforts in active participation in open innovation networks. The paper starts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506186
Although non-R&D innovation activities account for a significant portion of innovation efforts carried out across very … jointly considering the effects of R&D and the impact of non-R&D innovation activities on the productivity levels of ?firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477055
Innovation is crucial to regional economic competitiveness and to productivity growth. A salient feature of the Indian … economy is the geographic concentration of both, economic activity and innovation, as measured by patent activity. Theoretical … turn drives innovation. The literature also posits that the presence of human capital is critical to the generation of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569985
Hall point it, as an important instrument for creating a strategy for the development of innovation at the state and … need for countries and regions to specialize as well as focus development of innovation in areas that are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490032
innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495437