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 …

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

The New Zealand Government has indicated a strong interest in fostering innovation and aims to concentrate on selected …). This paper aims to fill some of the gaps in our knowledge of biotechnology and innovation processes in New Zealand. It is … modern biotech processes and includes analysis of the rate of innovation by biotech respondents compared to OECD estimates …

Public innovation support claims to reach out to firms facing barriers hindering them from innovating, especially …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in … of domestic innovation capacities. We present detailed analysis of the role of Africa in development of these … a barrier to technology transfer and diffusion.<BR>Ce rapport livre des données comparatives sur l’innovation concernant …

Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been … sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS … Summary Innovation Index. The main weaknesses are in business R&D intensity, the share of the population with tertiary …