"Innovation is good for you" appears actually the common feature of most science, technology and innovation studies … over the last decades. This appears, however surprising given the fact that innovation failure rather than innovation … lecture: could it be that innovation is not always good for you? A frequently heard argument is that at a societal level …

Based on a survey adapted from the Fourth European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-4), this study finds that, in the … new product sales as a percentage of total sales or engage in R&D or collaborative innovation activities in China are more … likely to survive and remain in Guangdong. The study fills a gap in the literature by investigating the effects of innovation …

The innovation systems approach has proven useful in explaining the reasons behind varying economic performance in … developing countries. The systemic understanding of the innovation process, which pays attention to the knowledge flow among … interactive actors, serves as a useful 'focusing device' for elaborating effective policy to accelerate the innovation process and …

social inclusion. Innovation systems thinking, particularly in renewable natural resource, agriculture and rural development …, informs that the dominant paradigm of impact assessment should be complemented by social innovation assessment, providing … Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programme between 1995 and 2006, a social innovation assessment tool was …

The fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is which economic subjects are the sources of … sources of General-Purpose Technologies GPTs in a Schumpeterian world of innovation-based competition. Through an inductive …-driven innovation. International conflict is the context that spurs the GPTs, which are driven by global leadership of critical …