The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the Internal Process Innovation (IPI) Activity … manufacturing small, medium and large enterprises were examined and a set of hypotheses, regarding their innovation activity, were …) and the electronic information exchange between business partners are positively related to firm's process innovation …

In this introductory article to the EIT ICT Labs we outline its innovation ecosystem and recap the underlying motives … Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) that was founded in …

The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross … desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on … Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new …

This paper attempts to give an economic perspective of the impact of the innovation industries. The estimation method …, as higher employment and wages/capita in innovation industries are accompanied by higher employment and lower … influence of research and development activities. All these effects point to the sustainability of innovation industries, which …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a; production function; of innovation for European regions …

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. We do … would increase the innovation of the region itself by 80-90%. Given the small size and the limited range of diffusion, we …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …

We contribute to the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) literature in two ways: (i) we consider how societal … aspects are taken into account in research and innovation activities in four fundamentally different futures, as opposed to … efficacy and efficiency of policy-making; legitimacy of research and innovation activities; societal involvement; equity; and …

In an open and digital economy where ICTs, global networks and innovation systems play a key economic role, knowledge … to use new ways to innovate. New innovation processes permit companies to reduce risk and the costs of innovation. New … paradigms, called open innovation and co-innovation, allow organizations to remain innovative in a rapidly changing environment …