Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

Innovation serves many purposes. In this paper we study new varieties of innovation and innovation policy which address … terms of multiplicities of innovation, governance and societal challenges. They serve as living labs and lead-markets for … solutions to societal challenges. The identified and analysed cases of social innovation initiatives in these metropolitan areas …

, education pillar, economic incentive and institutional regime pillar, innovation efficiency index, knowledge creation index …, knowledge impact index, knowledge diffusion index and technological infrastructure, despite deterioration in both innovation … investing heavily in education, training, boosting knowledge absorption index and innovation through intensive spending on RD …

efficiency and labour market efficiency, financial market development, technological readiness and capacity for innovation. Our …-industry cooperation, RD and innovation capacity. Knowledge transfer through utilization of international trade is facilitated by the sound …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending rather than RD … spending is used to predict innovation in the CDM model. Second, we assume that a firm simultaneously innovates and chooses …

This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of innovation and how they are presented for use in …, which raises questions about the definition of innovation. This is followed by a review of plans for the evolution of … innovation indicators and their use over the next few years. These plans, national and international, are diverse and this leads …