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 …

strongly interrelated with the research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3), and to critically evaluate …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …

weak ties for small business growth and innovation in emerging economies are discussed. The findings suggest that culture …

Management literature prescribes innovation as a stimulus for sustained competitive advantage in companies; however … on the body of literature concerned with the factors which influence innovation management in organisations. The aim of … this research is to present a holistic view of the factors that affect innovation management. Using a systematic literature …