Godin, Benoit; Lane, Joseph P. - In: International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems 2 (2012) 1, pp. 5-13
For decades, research and development or R%D has dominated innovation policies. This paper considers the statistical … innovation in Western nations. The categories 'research' and 'development' used to characterise innovation arose not to explain … the underlying methods or mechanisms of innovation, but instead to satisfy the requirements of statistical analyses. The D …