government strategic agenda. Considering the importance of new technologies and innovation, we describe the paths and challenges … represents the new technology limited by the application in cosmetics. New technologies are not an innovation guarantee. Market …

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills-including creativity, innovation, and technical capability …-to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate … education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries …

that will require more innovation for firms to remain competitive across the global market. The PIDS Survey on Innovation …% of Philippines establishments were innovation-active. Strikingly, the BPO sector spends the most for innovation … activities despite it being the least innovation-active among the various sectors at a rate of just 30%. Intellectual property …

Innovation involves implementing new or significantly improved goods and services, production processes, marketing, or … organizational methods for adding value. The measurement of innovation provides a mechanism for benchmarking national performance …, and for examining innovation and its relation to economic growth. Further, examining determinants and bottlenecks to …

empirical results provided an affirmative response to the question raised in this paper: "Does innovation mediate good firm …

This paper analyzes the effect of different cooperation forms on innovation in small and medium enterprises in Belgium …, Germany, Portugal and Spain using Community Innovation Survey data from 2008. We find that vertical cooperation and knowledge … Portugal. However, our results suggest that SME are not able to capitalize from these cooperations. We find a significant and …

This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …&D has been examined for both countries. The study is unique in comparing Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities …