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Innovation Concepts and Typology – An Evolutionary Discussion
Kotsemir, Maxim; Abroskin, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper is devoted to the analysis of evolution of innovation concepts, aspect and types. First emergence and evolution of different aspects and concepts of innovation are analysed, then the development of innovation concepts from a historical perspective and finally an overview given of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259326
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an … approach to entrepreneurship and innovation. In this paper we address the innovation strategies of SMEs engaged in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111092
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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789299
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From smart specialisation to smart experimentation: Towards a new theoretical framework for EU regional policy
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The idea of smart specialisation has gained high prominence in the discourse about EU regional policy. In the coming program period from 2014 to 2020 it is expected to be a major pillar of EU structural funds. The notion of smart specialisation incorporates some basic principles of evolutionary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111188
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Innovation Determinants in Emerging Countries: An Empirical Study at the Tunisian Firms level
Gabsi, Foued; Mhenni, Hatem; Koouba, Karim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Explaining why some firms innovate and some others do not is an out-of-date challenge in the economic literature. In developing countries context, such exercise is even more complicated by the nature of the innovation (incremental, occasional and rarely continuous and structured). In this paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518089
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Innovation policies in the context of North-Africa: new trends in Morroco and Tunisia
Arvanitis, Rigas; Mhenni, Hatem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article will revise recent developments in the innovation policies in the case of Tunisia and Morocco as derived from the ESTIME project, which, among other things, has been instrumental in collecting systematically the policies around the Mediterranean partners of the EU (Arvanitis, 2006)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518107
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Determinants of Innovation in Emerging Country: an empirical study at the Tunisian firm level
Gabsi, Foued; Mhenni, Hatem; Koouba, Karim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Explaining why some firms innovate and some others do not is an out-of-date challenge in the economic literature. In developing countries context, such exercise is even more complicated by the nature of the innovation (incremental, occasional and rarely continuous and structured). In this paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113535
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Is the Triple Helix Model Suitable to Approach Low Density Regions Competitiveness? Insights from a Portuguese Case Study
Ferreira, João; Marques, Carla; Couto, Alcino; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This research aims to analyse the innovative performance of a Portuguese region (NUT III Beira Interior Sul) throughout the application of the Triple Helix (TH) approach, examining its capacity to describe and explain the innovative dynamics of the low density regions as engine of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259570
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Regional innovation systems in the global information technology industry: the non-internationalisation of greek smes
Arapoglou, Vassilis; Palaskas, Theodosios; Tsampra, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
present paper offers an insight into the contemporary pattern of innovativeness of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs … technology (IT) industry. The strategies of Greek SMEs are compared to those of their IT counterparts in three European countries … SMEs, based on a qualitative survey , is also presented. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322630
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The impact of creativity on growth in German regions
Wedemeier, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of the creative professions - technological employees and bohemians - on economic growth in Germany’s planning regions. It is concluded that technological employees and bohemians foster economic growth. We find that growth is particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694020