This article analyses aspects of high-tech cluster emergence in Israel during the 1990s with focuses on the data security software industry and on strategies of very successful companies dominating such an industry. Most of the industry is concentrated in Tel Aviv and close-by Hertzliya and to a...

Despite many attempts to develop high-impact venture capital (VC) policies, most VC markets in Europe are still underdeveloped. Many of these policies were based on ‘traditional’ (Rosiello et al, 2009) VC policy involving a mix of monetary incentives and institutional changes. In this...

Through a microeconomic analysis of companies in Israel?'s Venture Capital (vc) industry this paper aims to contribute to the discussion of targeted policies directed to the emergence of new industries, particularly but not only Venture Capital and High Tech industries. It integrates a...

This paper has a dual origin in (i) some empirical studies of technological change in Latin American steel plants carried out by the BID/CEPAL Technology Research Programme, and ( ii ) a theoretical and review paper also written for the BID/CEPAL Programme, in which one of the aspects proposed...

Esta presentación fue comisionada para la Reunión Preparatoria de la Red de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación del Diálogo Regional de Política celebrada el día 11 de diciembre de 2006.

This presentation was commissioned for the Preparatory Meeting of the Science, Technology and Innovation Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue celebrated on December 11th, 2006.

This paper argues that there is increasing need for the integration of policy considerations in the formulation of research questions and in the development of analytical work in policy-oriented innovation studies. Despite the fact that Evolutionary and Innovation Studies theories have offered...