products for their own use. The issue addressed is the role of the market in the definition of innovation in the OECD … measurement of innovation in the public sector. The policy implications of user innovation by consumers and by firms are … considered along with the importance of including consumer user innovation in official statistics. The paper ends with a …

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 …

This paper argues that immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most … Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both ageing and immigration on economic … conclusions are that immigration will help to alleviate the ageing problem, as long as the immigrants will be able to participate …

This paper sets out to explore the nature of new organisational and institutional vehicles for managing innovation in …-the-radar innovation. For each of these classes of innovation management vehicles this review has mapped the diversity of emerging examples … these new and as yet poorly-understood modes of innovation that have the greatest potential to effect change, although …

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 …

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 …

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