gap between the existing literature on competences on the one hand, and the real world of innovation policy-making on the … other, typically not speaking to each other. With this purpose in mind, this paper discusses the role of competences and … competences in their innovation systems; it examines what are the critical and most important issues at stake from the point of …

use this taxonomy to explore empirically the linkages of firm-level competences, the nature of the international … the three modes of globalization of innovation are associated to different competences. Firms with technological and … organizational competences show a higher propensity to develop international linkages, while firms with a high level of educated …