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This paper aims to identify factors that relate to scientists’ propensity to make commercially significant scientific discoveries (inventions) and to describe how these inventions are commercialized. Based on a large survey of academics active in different fields of science at U.S....
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This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms` innovation …, we find evidence that the public R&D finance has substantially influenced the innovation output of the firms that have … performance in terms of innovation. Those large firms that have more intensively collaborated with the SMS firm partners in their …
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This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...
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and innovation in university research. Innovation here refers to novel approaches and potentially, breakthrough research … the study is that, so far, there has not been much impact from the recent policy changes on intellectual innovation in … intellectual innovation in research. Recent policy changes have not fundamentally altered this situation. In the UK, the …
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Tekes innovation research instrument. The major findings include an observation that Finnish research funding system lacks a …
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Existing research argues that the keys to generating industry-relevant knowledge are interdisciplinary and networked research. The aim of this paper is to address statistically whether interdisciplinary and networked research are related to a higher potential to generate ideas with significant...
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innovation system. Three virtually simultaneous changes are of special importance. The first is the massive on-going renewal of … foundation of the so-called Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation (Finnish acronym : SHOK) that aim at …
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innovation policy tool, the system should be designed transparent and straightforward. A proper evaluation and information …
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The firm-level data concerning re-users of geographical information (GI) active in architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy sector from 15 countries during the year 2000-2007 suggests that the pricing of public sector GI strongly relates to the firms sales...
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innovation environments for firms and research centres. This study shows that those countries who invest wisely to develop their … innovation environment will be successful in high technology export markets. In recent years, Finnish high technology exports …
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