The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing … innovation activity of a firm, including structural characteristics (size, industry, etc.), competitive environment (intensity of … competition and type of main competitors), changes in financial position of a firm, it's pre-crisis performance and innovation …

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 …

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

Research and Experimental Development (R&D), particularly that which aims at innovation, that is, new social application. Not … confined to novel products or processes, arts and cultural innovation will yield altogether new ways in which arts and culture …

The new paradigm of regional policy is based more on competitiveness, innovation and internal potential of regions than … on balancing regional disparities by public aid only. Innovation policies are being established and implemented at … national and regional levels covering relatively a broad range of public initiatives directed towards supporting the innovation …

-run technological innovation. In the following article, this wisdom is tested using data on international patent activity, scientific … structured to adapt to innovation’s gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come …

This paper has as objective to approach the "Governance of Innovation in the different countries of the World", using … low level of innovation and economic development. …

knowledge-based economy in the world’ by 2010. This paper aims to ascertain the extent to which various indicators of innovation … this end, we provide a descriptive account of the competition and innovation indicators from 1980-2008. Then, we discuss … the relationship between market structure (level of competition) and innovation; and estimate the impact of the former on …

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. …