The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …

statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher … good number of decent universities (eg in the top 500), rather than only a few elite universities (eg in the top 100) …

innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the … industrialisation and innovation in India, and argues that the distinction between the knowledge of “how to make” (manufacture) and the … knowledge of “how to make better” (innovation) was inadequately appreciated in development planning in the country. …

Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The … purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation … stimulating eco-innovation. Design/methodology/approach - The approach utilised by this paper is empirical in nature. A modified …

innovation, when innovating agents have different costs and information transfer is expensive. We specify their optimisation …. The effect of expected innovation costs and its standard deviation are shown to be distribution dependent. Expected … considered. Transfer costs are found to be far more influential on switching than innovation costs in a symmetric model. Cost …

regions have recognized the significance impact of Science and Technology (S&T) and Education in their sustainable growth. In … the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …

regions have recognized the significance impact of Science and Technology (S&T) and Education in their sustainable growth. In … the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …

to be viewed as rigid and thus hostile to the risks, costs, and change associated with new technology; or are subject to … structured to adapt to innovation’s gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come … change. Therefore decentralized government is often perceived as a necessary institutional foundation for encouraging long …

-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no … national innovation rates. Its survey will show that, although a specific domestic institution or policy might appear to … explain a particular instance of innovation, they generally fail to explain national innovation rates across time and space …

United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …