about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since Schumpeter. It concludes that newness, value creation and process are …This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by … time and again considered as the key-elements of innovation. Innovation, hence, may be summarized as the process of …

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 …

foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises … training is found to have a strong effect on the innovation activity. However, firms owned by female and old entrepreneurs are … less likely to get involved in innovation. In an extended model of firm growth determinants that includes innovation …

arguable made the transition to an entrepreneurial economy in which innovation, creativity and high value added in early stage …

been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …