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 …

– clients of the Science and Technology Parks. …

This paper examines the direction of causality between Venture Capital (VC) and innovation (proxied by patents) in … suggesting that, in Europe, innovation seems to create a demand for VC and not VC a supply of innovation. In this sense …

There has been an explosion of innovation backed by venture capital since late 1970’s. Nonetheless, a great deal of … innovation still occurs within large companies. In this paper, I investigate the factors that determine when innovation is … executives. I find that if capital markets function perfectly, it is optimal for innovation to be conducted by venture …

regions have recognized the significance impact of Science and Technology (S&T) and Education in their sustainable growth. In … the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …

innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the … industrialisation and innovation in India, and argues that the distinction between the knowledge of “how to make” (manufacture) and the … knowledge of “how to make better” (innovation) was inadequately appreciated in development planning in the country. …

Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The … purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation … stimulating eco-innovation. Design/methodology/approach - The approach utilised by this paper is empirical in nature. A modified …

innovation, when innovating agents have different costs and information transfer is expensive. We specify their optimisation …. The effect of expected innovation costs and its standard deviation are shown to be distribution dependent. Expected … considered. Transfer costs are found to be far more influential on switching than innovation costs in a symmetric model. Cost …

United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …

uses the Schumpeterian model of innovation-diffusion as a framework for the study of "why growth rates differ" between …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … material to discuss the implications of innovation-diffusion for changes in specialization patterns/intra-industry trade. The …