capital is a major factor in creating the research and innovation infrastructure of a mature economy. Looking at the research … the soft skills of engineering students, and adopting an innovation perspective in the development of a nation. …

rather than innovation. Additionally, the model implies that human capital and intellectual property rights are substitutable …

innovation. As its name suggests, creative intelligence excludes imitation. Therefore, firstly, it requires an important … but insufficient condition to assure innovation. Indeed, two other factors are necessary for that: the patent, as a form … of protection of intellectual property rights, and the human capital (and thus the education). The resulting innovation …

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 …