the main strategic implications of such a complex picture. We first survey the main patent functions : innovation … protection, functions related to trade and finance, defensive roles, and patent as an input in the innovation process. We then …

The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB …

The "hierarchical and linear model of innovation" (HLMI) is often used to describe how innovations are produced. HLMI … conceiving innovation systems as associations of building blocks and using contemporary engineering diagram-based languages to … display them. Nevertheless, this improvement does not challenge the dynamic features of innovation systems …

we remain largely unaware of it. If R&D seems to be an enabler of innovation, it is not sufficient by itself. Thus, the … use the linear model of innovation as the basis for policies to promote innovation? Is it not possible to go against the …

généralement liés à l'innovation sous ses diverses formes : innovation produit naturellement, mais aussi innovation process …, innovation organisationnelle ou innovation sociale. Le manager ou le chef de projet en charge d'une telle transformation complexe …

L'innovation est souvent comprise et décrite comme le résultat d'une fonction particulière du système économique, par …, parfois confondus, de découverte, d'invention et d'innovation, et sur une définition aussi systématique que possible du … processus de conception sera un pas vers amélioration potentielle du processus d'innovation …