generates very poor gross domestic products. To reverse this trend, African countries must build innovation-based economies …

questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …

of indigenous entrepreneurs. This paper therefore argued for the provision of comprehensive innovation policy, in which … (competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …

) and the complex systems evolutionary economics (EE) to address issues related to innovation processes, technological … of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Finally, it provides a perspective of generality and scope, an … concepts in the context of the functioning of socio-technical systems of production and innovation. Then as a closure raises …

-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no … national innovation rates. Its survey will show that, although a specific domestic institution or policy might appear to … explain a particular instance of innovation, they generally fail to explain national innovation rates across time and space …

innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need …

economic development. Knowledge-based economies are founded on increasing specialization, research, innovation and learning … training, innovation, information infrastructure, the institutional regime. This contribution will focus mainly on one of those …