innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …

information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

we remain largely unaware of it. If R&D seems to be an enabler of innovation, it is not sufficient by itself. Thus, the … objective of this special issue is to question the relations between science and technology. What are the risks in continuing to … use the linear model of innovation as the basis for policies to promote innovation? Is it not possible to go against the …

L'ouvrage traite des relations science-industrie et de leur incription dans un cadre géographique, à partir du cas de … de la "carte scientifique" contemporaine, une étude des relations science-industrie et une étude sociologique des … parcours et des réseaux sociaux des ingénieurs et chercheurs impliqués dans les relations science-industrie. Il met en évidence …

Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of … future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …

understand nanotechnology based innovation. As general purpose and enabling technologies, nanotechnologies reveal … commercialization processes, from start-ups to large firms in collaboration with public sector research, and which lead to changing …

intellectual property in science. In fact, the relationship between science, intellectual property rights and the economic spheres … of the French case, the place of science in the patent system is taken into account in order to understand, at last, the …