This paper analyzes empirically the channels through which university research affects industry innovation. We examine … innovation systems. We find that creation of a new university department increased regional innovation activity 3-4 years later …

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

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 …

building and innovation. …

policy played a crucial role and the endogenous responses in the national system of innovation consisted of two parts. On the …

Is innovation important for development? And if so, how? One popular perception of innovation, that one meets in media … exploitation of the most recent advances in knowledge. Such innovation is normally seen as carried out by highly educated labour in …. Hence innovation in this sense is a typical “first world” activity. There is, however, another way to look at innovation …