importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy …

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially … services. About 8 percent of total employment in West Germany is in business services. In particular, by taking advantage of …" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation …

innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …In the following paragraphs we will discuss the 'mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems'. For …

We consider the development of German federal research and technology (R&T) policies since the 1960s and sketch the …

product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

estimations show that funding an additional Excellence Cluster focused on internationally competitive research within a labor …

the "Center for European Economic Research" (Mannheim, Germany) among 3122 firms representing 378 different lines of … relations between innovating firms, suppliers and users, using data from Germany. The analysis is based on a survey conducted by …