Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth …, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing … cycle and (ii) from solo researchers toward teams. This paper summarizes the evidence that science has evolved - and …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation … contest for engineering and computer science students which allowed us to differentiate between those who self-select into …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

This paper compares the contribution of R&D to innovation in terms of the various innovation output measures provided … by the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3) for French manufacturing firms and in terms of accounting for inter …-industry innovation differences …

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …