Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy … concludes that policy measures to stimulate corporate R&D and innovation activities should be expressly conceived according to …

assess the impact of these different sources on the results of the innovation process. We develop an econometric sequential … model dealing successively with the innovation decision and the nature of innovation and use recent French data coming from … the 1997 Community Innovation Survey. The main results are that innovation is not the result of isolated agents and that …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

On behalf of the German Federal Government, the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation presents its second … measures to further strengthen the innovation potential of Germany. In particular in the present economic diffi culties …, research and innovation policies have a central role to play. The challenges faced are varied and were already named in the EFI …

economic vitality caused by investments in domestic technology innovation in the formerly integrated national economy, national … innovation Along with the new innovation park infrastructure, the most important job creation strategy that the EDA could … implement is creating the new capital market infrastructure that targets investments to regional innovation opportunities. This …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies. In this column, the organization discusses the definition of innovation economics with …. The authors' reference the topic of innovation economics covered in a Business Week article, published earlier this fall …

Research and innovation are extremely important for Germany. New insights are generated by research, and new ways of … and innovation, and where the country ranks in the international innovation contest. The Federal Government of Germany … therefore decided in 2006 to establish an independent Commission of Experts on Research and Innovation (EFI), with the remit to …

the Slovak Republic was analyzed. The study differentiates between product innovation and three different forms of process …