engaging in virtually no collaboration in the area of innovation, and others engaging quite intensively with academic partners …

National Innovation System, with particular attention devoted to the question of finance and policy initiatives. We then turn …

knowledge acquisition, and barriers to innovation and development. In spite of a relative lack of government support, we find …

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of small and medium-sized enter-prises (SMEs) to innovation … in Germany. The paper reviews the empirical literature on SMEs' innovation activities and conceptualises indicators to … identify the key dimensions of innova-tion processes and outputs. The analysis of statistical data and surveys from various …

(Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an analysis of two Sectoral Innovation Systems (Malerba, 2002) in the …

Innovation System, and then focus on KIE itself. Our findings are perhaps more optimistic than many previous studies of knowledge … which universities are playing a significant role as partners for firms in the innovation process has increased … significantly; moreover, we observe a significant degree of internationalization of innovation-related cooperation. Another …