innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

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 …

innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …

rate of vocational students, and enhancing the level of collaboration among the key innovation players are priorities. The … des élèves en filière professionnelle et le renforcement du niveau de collaboration entre les principaux acteurs de l’innovation …

. Fostering competition by removing regulatory barriers and improving public procurement would help. In addition, innovation … l'innovation au Danemark<BR>La productivité danoise n’a progressé que modérément au cours des deux dernières décennies … publics. En outre, les politiques d’innovation doivent gagner en efficacité et prendre davantage en compte l …

persist.<P> Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and … Russie : Les compétences, l'éducation et l'innovation<BR>Le marché du travail en Russie est très flexible. Les entreprises s …

The US innovation system has many strengths, including world class research universities and firms that thrive in … innovation-intensive sectors. However, fissures have begun to appear, notably in the areas of human capital development, the … patent system and manufacturing activity, while public investments in R&D and research universities are at risk of being …

strengthen competition, entrepreneurship and innovation would go a long way toward enhancing it. Recent competition policy … procedures. Recent reforms to the innovation policy framework are welcome but the focus on sectoral priority clusters will need … productivité par le renforcement de la concurrence, l'entrepreneuriat et l'innovation<BR>Le déclin de la croissance de la …