The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …

The study of the relationships between innovation and the competitiveness of industries is an important topic for both … economics view. Both traditions agree on the important role played by innovation and the intersectoral diffusion of advanced … play a fundamental role for shaping innovation patterns and their impacts on the competitiveness of industries. …

on innovation and economic growth, the technology-gap approach and the Kaldorian theory of cumulative causation. The … the 1980s, innovation and diffusion of new technologies provide with a greater stimulus to productivity growth, but the …

uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … material to discuss the implications of innovation-diffusion for changes in specialization patterns/intra-industry trade. The …

Innovation Surveys in Latin American started more than ten years ago. As of today, 15 Latin American countries have … carried out a total of 46 innovation surveys, and Latin America does now stand out as the region with the most active … innovation survey data production within the developing world. This short article provides a primer to innovation surveys in …

of innovation practices. It analyses whether the entrepreneurial innovation capability of firms is stimulated through the … relationships developed with external partners. The data of 2nd Community Innovation Survey of EUROSTAT is used in a logistic model …. In the estimation process of the Logit function, the entrepreneurial innovation capability is considered as the answer …

the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …