In examining the prospects for oil and gas supply from the GCC countries, we draw on the evidence that the supply of … called upon, as it has in the past. Oil and gas are of central importance to the economies of most GCC countries …. Hydrocarbons provide the basis on which to gradually diversify GCC economies. Continued hydrocarbon-based economic growth provides …

The Innovation systems (IS) approach and the system failures it identifies, play an important role in the design and … legitimization of innovation policy. This paper analyses the usefulness of this concept. We conclude that the IS-approach can be … useful to visualize the complexity of the innovation processes. However, for policy design this approach is less suited …

This paper considers the integration of competition policy and innovation policy in the context of R&D cooperation. An …

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between … innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private …

. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with Keynes' concern for uncertainty and expectations formation, this article … focuses on the behaviour of entrepreneurs confronting uncertainty caused by innovation. Entrepreneurs' behaviour is … opened up by a successful innovation generates a state of optimism in the minds of single entrepreneurs, which eventually …