This chapter aims at analysing some characteristics of the innovation process, focusing on two factors that may … can have positive effects on the equality level of an economy, while having not always positive effect on innovation. …

the research cycle, a movement which may actually discourage future research innovation. This document addresses some of …

Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards … sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation …/ Approach Using data for over 2,000 Irish firms collected in a special module included in the sixth Community Innovation Survey …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …

of firms’ classification according to pattern and intensity of innovation and the use of technology. This topic is of …' innovation competencies, the technology used, and the human skills. Firms in the sample are classified into 4 groups, named …

what is known as historical materialism: social systems, it argued, emerge, develop and die not because they correspond …