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 … curtailed by budget cuts. Revitalizing the dynamism of innovation has become a priority for US policymakers. To this end, it is …

Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been … relatively weak in recent years. Knowledge creation in the Netherlands is strong -- scientific publications per capita are the … sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS …

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 …