Innovation plays a crucial role in determining today's economic growth patterns. But whatenables some countries to … European transition countries. It provides adetailed description of innovation by identifying regional differences in terms of …

Plenary 1: Redefining development goals: Science, Technology and Innovation, sustainable growth, improvement of income …

institutional settings. There is a much alluded-to,but under-investigated, link between economic growth, innovation systems, and … institutions.There is widespread agreement among most economists on the positive reinforcing linkbetween innovation and growth …. However, the importance of institutions as catalysts in thislink has not been adequately examined. The concept of innovation …

Parallel session 2: Innovation and firm performance …