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 …

of indigenous entrepreneurs. This paper therefore argued for the provision of comprehensive innovation policy, in which … (competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …

organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … great number of which is market by a weak potential of adaptability, innovation and sustainability. It becomes urgent to …

) 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 …

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 …

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 …