differences across regions in innovation and diffusion of technology may explain these findings. A simultaneous equation model … for 64 European regions in the 1980s. The results show that innovation and the diffusion of technology are indeed … les regions les ecarts d'innovation et de diffusion de la technologie, parmi d'autres facteurs. Un modele d …

Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labour in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to … leading centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical “first world” activity …. There is, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture. In this, broader …

-income countries managed to catch up or fall behind depended mainly on their ability to develop their 'innovation system'. …

Although innovation is not a new topic for scholarly research, the academic literature on innovation was, for a long … time, not very voluminous. However, more recently innovation has become a major focus among scholars of different … exists a unified community of innovation scholars that identify themselves with innovation studies as a field rather than …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

This paper provides new information, not available from other sources, on the characteristics ofthe innovation process …