There is an increasing appreciation for the role that facilitating institutions play in successful innovation. Most commonly these institutions are discussed and analysed as innovation systems. National Innovation Systems were the first type identified, and a range of other forms of innovation...

A corollary of the principle of comparative advantage is that international trade will lead to economic convergence between countries. This encouragement of development makes trade a central part of the economic policies of agencies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank....

There have been a number of studies recently which have analysed international trade as a complex network. Most of these have concluded that trade connections within the network show a power-law distribution. This is generally assumed to mean that the world trade web has grown through the...

International trade plays a central role in economic growth. However, there is a need to better explain the mechanism through which this occurs. This paper uses complex network analysis to investigate the contribution international trade makes to growth in small population developed economies,...

Background: In the marketing literatures, "articulation of demand" is quoted as an important competency of market-driving firms. In this paper, therefore, I will demonstrate how the concept of "demand articulation" was effective in formulating corporate policies for technology and market...

Innovation has been and continues to be an important theme in management literature, and almost any improvement upon the status quo could be regarded as some sort of innovation. Such an improvement could be made in terms of an increase of efficiency for an existing process or the creation of...

We propose an international economic agenda to overcome the growth limits of capitalism that can be supported by the United Nations. Sustainable Environment based global goals should be added to sustainable economy. For this, we propose dynamic balance between three sub-economies such as open...

In a last few decades, innovation research scholars proposed several new concepts, one after another, but independently, and in a chronological sequence: technology fusion; digital convergence; disruptive technology; open innovation; and IoT (Internet of Things). Each concept has its own...