potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We … discuss the effects of standard setting activities by large, often public, procurers on innovation races. We evaluate how …

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 …

process of innovation, needed to be successful. The model also shows in a new framework how, due to the cumulative nature of … this innovation process, it is possible to obtain equilibria with regional income di®erentiation, even in the presence of …

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming …, this paper sheds light on the various sources of firm learning, investment and collaboration and their relative importance … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and …

its innovation system and the interplay between the firm and the non-firm sector. We argue that, in any economy, when … generated a sub-optimal outcome. Market forces did not result in the western-style innovation system, but a hybrid one, with …-down" supply-driven allocation of resources and a reliance on external (but domestic) network of sources for innovation and capital …

processes of innovation and diffusion of a general purpose technology (GPT) take place. There is also an analysis of the …