innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then …

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 …

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 …

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

building and innovation. …