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The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …
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different countries (Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Holland and Switzerland) we have obtained the following empirical results …
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Innovation is a  polymorph, complex and multifaceted phenomenon. The changing context of Economic issues gives … innovation a central role in the performance of Tunisian firms. In recent years, Tunisia's economy has become more complex and … potential for innovation. The transition from a Fordis economy type to a knowledge-based economy requires the generalization of …
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The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance … quality affect firm-level innovation, utilising a dataset for 1,400 non-financial US-listed companies. Using two-way cluster …
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Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards … sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation …/ Approach Using data for over 2,000 Irish firms collected in a special module included in the sixth Community Innovation Survey …
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The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …
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to innovation classifying firms into four broad sectors. The propensity and drivers of four types of innovation (new to … to firm and new to market innovation, there is a strong degree of heterogeneity in the drivers of innovation across … evidence of differences across sectors in the drivers of innovation. These results have important implications for policy …
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The paper aims at comparing some of the most influential theories of development with the notion of Innovation Systems … (IS). The objective is to understand if this comparison can be used to delve into the role of innovation within the … development process. We start defining the main features that characterizes Innovation Systems. Then we contrast it with different …
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In this paper, a theory of total factor productivity (TFP) that incorporates a model of intelligence is formulated and described. In particular, the fluid intelligence of ordinary workers is emphasized as an important element in TFP because such workers have the intelligence to innovate, even...
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Innovation system approach, as a result of change in understanding of the innovation process, can be examined in … sectoral, regional and national level. Regional innovation system initiatives which aim at increasing the innovative capacity … past experiences will shed light on new efforts on establishing regional innovation systems. In Turkey, efforts of building …
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