labour market. The challenge today appears more or less similar, but this time with respect to knowledge. Interestingly, it … social welfare models that have performed best in terms of knowledge investments. This suggests, that success in boosting … knowledge investment generates the public resources for the development of social welfare models capable of addressing rapid …

and the globalization of innovation, in which the developing countries have an increasingly important role to play. In the … we study the increasing complexity in the knowledge creation process caused by this dynamic interaction between the …

Resources for Invention (1962), are so relevant in today’s knowledge-driven economic paradigm. Focusing on the papers …’ application to current global policy debates on information/knowledge and intellectual property, they argue that while the context … has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve …

The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … and economic objectives and in which business competition is increasingly based on innovation. As highlighted on the basis …

"Innovation is good for you" appears actually the common feature of most science, technology and innovation studies … over the last decades. This appears, however surprising given the fact that innovation failure rather than innovation … lecture: could it be that innovation is not always good for you? A frequently heard argument is that at a societal level …

, knowledge creation and diffusion. We argue that while the concentration of research investments remains in a relatively small … in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …

knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is … in many ways similar to, and reminiscent of the development of the many innovation policy tools in European countries and … regions. The first policy challenge, we refer to as "recherche sans frontières"; the second one as "innovation for local …