framework factors that provide the most effective means of supporting innovation. The evidence suggests that there is a clear … knowledge) are likely to have dual benefits, not only helping to stimulate new innovative activities, but also helping to … maximise the benefits to be gained from the existing stock of knowledge. Potential policy trade-offs also need to be taken into …

Despite some weakening in the 1990s, partly due to sluggish trend growth, the Swiss innovation performance has been … very strong. There are, however, areas in which policy reforms could strengthen innovation further and help Switzerland … services sectors, which becomes more crucial to sustaining high domestic innovation in a context where large firms are …

wider social benefits from innovation if knowledge is able to diffuse freely, and if potential beneficiaries have sufficient … absorptive capacity to be able to understand and use new knowledge productively.<P>Revue des politiques publiques en faveur de l'innovation<BR>L’innovation …Innovation is a broad topic, about which much has been written. Almost every kind of public policy has either a direct …