The paper examines the challenges social scientists face when analysing innovation, especially R&D and innovation … activities of firms, i.e. their strategies in typical stages of an innovation process in a defined economy. The motivation behind … is to describe properly the innovation activities of firms in the proper economic-historical context. There are many ways …

Prizes are receiving increasing attention in policy and entrepreneurial communities as means to promote innovation, but …

Policy and entrepreneurial communities are increasingly promoting innovation by using prizes but their distinguishing …

books reviewed, in terms of the five themes of Prometheus, i.e. Technological Change, Innovation, Information Economics …

This paper reviews the contribution that Prometheus has made over the past 20 years to the literature on innovation …, innovation policy and technological change. I offer first a necessarily subjective view of how the research literatures of … innovation and innovation policy have developed in recent decades. I then compare that account with an interpretation of the …