findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

Economic globalization has rendered innovation policy as the main instrument for improving —or keeping— the threatened … competitiveness of firms and regions. This article analyzes the level of innovation in Spain, the role played by Information and …, Development and innovation Programmes. …

This paper raises the question of the relationship between innovation and productivity conditional to ICT use and R …&D activities during the innovation process. Concretely, we wonder whether R&D activities and ICT use considered as innovation … these innovation outputs conditional to ICT use and R&D lead to a higher level of labour productivity. In this adaptation of …

communication technologies (ICT). Against the backdrop of a weakening link between productivity and traditional innovation inputs (e …, work processes and human resource practices. More fundamentally, digitization is changing the way innovation itself is done …, opening the prospect of a long-term increase in the overall rate of innovation. Over time, this will dwarf the benefits from …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It … respect to intellectual property rights and competition. Realising Russia’s innovation potential will also require reform of … well as the scope for improving the tax regime for private-sector R&D.<P>Augmenter l'efficacité de la politique de l'innovation …

Increasing productivity growth through innovation is a key to raising living standards. Although R&D intensity in Japan …. The innovation system, which developed during the catchingup process, is largely input-driven and focused on incremental … innovation based on closed and stable corporate and employment systems. However, this approach is less appropriate in the current …