Recent developments in economics have gone from the recognition of the importance of innovation for growth and the … exploration of innovation mechanisms to the incorporation of the results of the previous research into economic models. An … mechanisms of innovation creation and diffusion, the importance of agent heterogeneity, of market selection processes, of the …

barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces … environmental impacts and how the huge global markets for sustainable innovation are currently hampered by protectionist policies … examined in the first case. It also focuses on regional tacit inventors, who spur innovation in tourism mobility thanks to the …

presented here compare the European and U.S. patterns in this regard. Moreover, Schumpeterian innovation dynamics as well as … energy policy issues receive attention. Considerable differences in innovation dynamics are reported across countries. The … book charts the role of different innovation systems and knowledge societies and highlights different policy approaches …