In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that … Russian industrial enterprises the authors analyze key features of innovation in Russian companies under economic recovery, as …

The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …

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 types of innovation classifications developed in the literature …

We study the product and process innovation choice of firms in which a managerial incentive à la Vickers (1985) is … present. Taking a two-stage dynamic game approach, we show that managerial firms are led to over-invest in process innovation …, as compared to standard profit-maximising firms, while they under-invest in product innovation. The reason is that …

evidence on the innovation-enhancing effect of export is, however, very scant. In this paper, we analyze the relationship … between a firm's export status and its product innovation activity by using a rich firm-level survey on Italian manufacturing … effect of exporting on product innovation is likely to be demand-driven, that is to originate from the interaction between …