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 …

-term orientation and the local embeddedness of family firms suggest a positive effect on regional innovation activity. Yet, despite the … effect of family firms on regional innovation. Using a dataset of 326 German regions, our regressions show that regions with … a higher share of family firms also show higher levels of innovation activity, as measured by the number of successful …

innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need … average income across countries. Consequently, the paper recommends the need to build the resilience of vulnerable populations …

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 …