This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We … identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical … investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance is conducive to economic …

This discussion paper explores aspects of innovation systems ideas in the analysis of mango production and export by … to aspects of integrated technology development and innovation management. …

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …

Innovation is a source of increasing productivity, but it is also a source of stress. Psychological research shows that … different rates of innovation on productivity. The model shows among other things that the existence and nature of relationships … of people determine the extent to which a certain rate of innovation effectively results in increasing productivity. In …

infinite population it converges to the Yule-Simon distribution. The power law is steeper when innovation is high. Diffusion …

question of how agricultural research can be used more effectively to improve agricultural production and farmers' livelihoods … agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …