enterprises (SMEs) seemingly successful R&D is a function of innovation processes and R&D networks. There is a perceived lack of … and to SME's is the development of collaborative environments and networks to increase their innovation capabilities as a …

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …

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 …

) 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 …