machinery industry. Nothing has received as much attention as innovation, which has been pinpointed as the fundamental driving … force for economic growth and welfare as well as a key factor in competitiveness. Therefore, innovation growth is seen as a … mechanism to influence economic growth, and therefore firms capable of increasing their innovation potential benefit from …

product, process, and technological innovation. There has been some research on the product and techno-logical innovation …

Fraunhofer Institute’s Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) In Karlsruhe. The study focuses on German mechanical engineering and …

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … the impact of innovation on employment growth depends on the macroeconomic situation. …

development of innovation on the local level in the former centrally planned countries. The purpose of this paper is to highlight … the strong links between the institutional and organizational decentralization and development of innovation on the local … innovation. To justify our approach, we combine the institutional approach and the evolutionary approach to explain the formation …