innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We … identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical … investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance is conducive to economic …

knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is … in many ways similar to, and reminiscent of the development of the many innovation policy tools in European countries and … regions. The first policy challenge, we refer to as "recherche sans frontières"; the second one as "innovation for local …

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …

The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on … the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the … industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world …

changing and with it challenges and opportunities to control the disease. Innovation in a variety of areas such as improved … to respond to the changing public health challenge. This paper reviews theoretical approaches to innovation of direct … relevance to the case and examines what theoretical framework is useful to look at the problem of innovation in public health in …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …