has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …

In this paper, a wide range of innovation indicators are analysed in order to describe the innovation behaviour of … manufacturing firms in LAC using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as … understand the main characteristics of innovative firms and to gather new evidence with regard to the nature of the innovation …

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 …

Non-R&D innovation is a common economic phenomenon, though R&D has been the central focus of policy making and … scholarly research in the field of innovation. An analysis of the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-3) results for …. In contrast, firms that engage in product innovation, find clients, universities and research institutions an important …

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 …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

also on the importance of alliances and an open innovation system for the development of radical inventions. …

Evidence of user innovation in firms in Maputo Province is presented. This results from a case study of firms that had … previously been identified in the Mozambican National Innovation Survey 2009 as process innovators. While the observations are … too few to support statistical inferences, they demonstrate the presence of user innovation in firms and they suggest …

innovation framework. …