Does heightened employer-friendly trade secrecy protection help or hinder innovation? By examining U.S. state …-friendly trade secrecy adversely affects innovation. We then investigate why. We do not find empirical support for diminished idea …

Does heightened employer-friendly trade secrecy protection help or hinder innovation? By examining U.S. state …-friendly trade secrecy adversely affects innovation. We then investigate why. We do not find empirical support for diminished idea …

, this paper examines the factors that nurture innovation in logistics services, identifies the contributions of the new …

4 Background This paper summarises a grant proposal to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). The aim of … knowledge workers are key-persons in the innovation system, and second that we know surprisingly little about what is important … and industry labs belong to the innovation system. Second, a commercial environment, entrepreneurs and companies are …

market (‘innovation’) and indicators of skills of employees (‘knowledge workers’). Using econometric analysis, we relate the … three factors ‘R&D’, ‘innovation’ and ‘knowledge workers’ to regional economic growth. We conclude that the factors … ‘innovation’ and ‘knowledge workers’ are more profoundly related to urban employment and productivity growth than the R …

This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by … starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since Schumpeter. It concludes that newness, value creation and process are … time and again considered as the key-elements of innovation. Innovation, hence, may be summarized as the process of …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation … technological development. The third step was an assessment of CEECs innovation and R&D policies, and their linkages with …