organizations all over the world. The transaction costs of licensing these disparate rights are inhibiting unlicensed manufacturers … innovation by facilitating access to valuable inventions. …

competition between U.S. and Japanese companies in electronics-related industries. The model is similar to that described by Piore … exogenous technological change but by repeatedly leapfrogging their competitors through product and process innovation. This … shifts the focus from the mechanical production process to the collaborative innovation process, which requires social …

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 …

research organization of this sector with concentration of national research potential The innovation system is operating below … its potential, whether measured by the system’s inputs, outputs, or by the contribution of innovation to economic growth …. The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013 of the World Economic Forum ranks Bulgaria 97th of a total of 144 countries in …