innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …

seriously, such endeavour calls for the creation and diffusion of new knowledge as basis for innovation and behavioural change … on various levels and therefore often is referred to as knowledge-based bioeconomy. In the current debate, the … requirement for innovation is mostly seen in the advance of the biotechnology sector. However, in order to fulfil the requirement …

In this paper we outline a conceptual framework for depicting network development patterns of interfirm innovation … test hypotheses in the innovation and evolutionary economics framework and show that structural positions of firms as well …

We present the results of an empirical study of the national innovation systems of countries in the Iberian Peninsula … period from 2000 until 2011 and the countries analyzed are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain. Unlike … previous approaches that used cluster analyses as a methodological framework to analyze national innovation systems from a CSNE …

Research networks are regarded as channels for knowledge creation and diffusion and are thus essential for the … participants in FP5 to FP7 in the knowledge-intensive technology fields ICT, Biotechnology and Nanoscience. A better understanding …