The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …

defence firms will progressively become more efficient, less dependent on public procurement and innovation policy support …

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … innovation process: the choice of a firm to engage in innovation, its R&D intensity, its innovation output and labour … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway …

The study of the relationships between innovation and the competitiveness of industries is an important topic for both … economics view. Both traditions agree on the important role played by innovation and the intersectoral diffusion of advanced … play a fundamental role for shaping innovation patterns and their impacts on the competitiveness of industries. …

on innovation and economic growth, the technology-gap approach and the Kaldorian theory of cumulative causation. The … the 1980s, innovation and diffusion of new technologies provide with a greater stimulus to productivity growth, but the …