In recent years, it is not only a researcher, or a developer, who is important for technology innovation, but … innovation requires cooperation within the business microenvironment and supportive legal, political, economic, social or … is, how big is the difference in technological innovation/patenting between developed and developing countries of the EU …

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …

strongly interrelated with the research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3), and to critically evaluate …

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 …

Datenbanken, als Lernportale und im Knowledgemanagement eröffnet sich das ganze Spektrum des E-Learning. Wird diese neue Form des … Visionen und vagen Prognosen, sondern eine aussagekräftige Zwischenbilanz, wie sich das "E-Learning" zu einer Bildungswelt der … Projekte in Unternehmen. Sie zeigen, wie effektiv Unternehmen und Konzerne das E-Learning mittlerweile einsetzen und welche …

Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a … vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth … to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been …

-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …