waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … innovation. …

Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labor in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to leading … centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical “first world” activity. There is …, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture. In this broader perspective …

must then become larger to break even, which facilitates amortizing the fixed costs of innovation. We demonstrate our …

innovation comes about and the speeds of both invention and diffusion. For much of human history, innovation had been primarily a … mills or the printing press. The mechanisms that account for innovation becoming a routine activity in terms of the …