Global policy discussions increasingly focus on innovation and the knowledge economy as a driver of long-term growth …. In parallel new forms of innovation processes are emerging, notably open innovation and innovation networks stressing the … importance of connections between various stakeholders. Links between universities and the business sector are of particular …

heterogeneity in the type of links to science at the firm level. Overall, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation …This paper discusses the diversity of mechanisms which firms can deploy to link to science and how science links are … associated with their innovation performance. Using a sample of Flemish firms, we show that there exists considerable …

modifications expanded the concept of fixed capital to include intangible capital. The underlying drivers of innovation have … innovation in growth. But they also point to the importance of competition and firm entry and exit as key motivators for firms to …

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and mediumsized enterprises and … sense and as instruments for financing innovation. It also discusses implications of these developments for public policy …

Rahmen die teilnehmenden Mitgliedstaaten mit eigenen Mitteln Forschung und Innovation privater Unternehmen in den eigenen … to subsidise the research and innovation of private companies. This paper addresses the question to what extent does … IPCEI contribute to a better innovation climate. The paper argues that Germany does not need IPCEI. More than direct …

The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

ways than initially intended (“displaced”), the organizers (the Society for Social Studies on Science-4S and the European … Association of Studies on Science and Technology-EASST) chose the conference theme “Design and Displacement”. …

evangelising "entrepreneurship" should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in many …, entrepreneurship, especially in regard to start-ups and particularly high-tech start-ups, has been in constant more or less recent … relation to the apparent illusions if not delusions regarding "entrepreneurship". …