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 …

Using a sample of 46 000 EU firms from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the drivers of innovation … adoption. In contrast to most empirical studies on innovation diffusion in which a specific technology is analyzed, this study … applied in a context of binary endogenous variable to explain the choices made by firms regarding innovation. Distinctions are …

The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …

In competitive industries, intensive and repeated innovation is a recognized necessity (Wheelwright and Clark, 1992; Le … Masson et al., 2010). Literature on innovation (Utterback, 1994; Henderson & Clark, 1990) distinguishes Dominant Design … revisions (radical innovations) from local improvements (incremental innovations). Regarding the innovation process management …

Universidade de La Rochelle (ULR) (France) in relation to the activities of innovation management, intellectual property (IP) and …, the legislation on innovation of each country, patents deposited and cases of technology transfer are presented. The … regarding the legislation on innovation, from the databases of the universities, and from an interview with the director of the …

can they manage and drive collective innovation? We first build on a review of the literature to highlight common core … innovation intermediaries by exploring the properties of a form of intermediary for which the degree of unknown is a key …

during the1990s. For those firms, innovation management no longer deals with introducing radically and totally new products …