Innovation systems are complex systems that can exhibit scaling and emergent properties. Predictable and measurable scaling correlations exist between measures commonly used to characterize innovation systems and national economies. This paper examines scaling relationships between GERD & GDP...

In this paper we analyze an unacknowledged tension in decision making about the distribution of resources for research and innovation. There is tension because while decision makers accept that there is inequality in research performance, and that resources should be distributed according to...

[fre] Pour mieux comprendre la nature des interactions entre science et technologie, il est important d'analyser les réseaux à travers lesquels circulent les compétences et les connaissances tacites, les matériaux et les objets. Les réseaux informels qui organisent les échanges de...

This short research note highlights the similarity between Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction and the work of his contemporary, the German theologian Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930). The note provides a brief over-view of Harnack’s concepts and terminology and highlights their...

"The paper proposes and applies an original multi-dimensional evaluation of the additionality of innovation policy, which takes into account its multi-level nature. The input, output and behavioural additionality effects of innovation policies (multi-dimension) are jointly investigated, at the...

This paper extends the Lucas (1978) model of occupational choices by individuals with different skills, beyond the simple options of self-employment or wage-employment, by including a second choice for the self-employed. That is, an option to hire employees and so become self-employed with...

This paper explores the relationship between ‘post-politics’ and processes of rescaling enacted through planning reform. It centres empirically on the policy shift which has occurred in planning since the inception of the Planning Act 2008 – the new framework which will oversee the...

Noting that the contribution of R&D is being integrated into national accounts just as these come under criticism for potentially overstating output, this paper uses a re-assessment of the concept of value to examine scope for under- and over-statement in conventional GDP. It assesses ways in...