We model technological and financial innovation as reflecting the decisions of profit maximizing agents and explore the … also engage in the costly, risky, and potentially profitable process of innovation: Financiers can invent more effective …. Consequently, technological innovation and, thus, economic growth stop unless financiers continually innovate. Historical …

builds upon the simultaneous nature and almost interchangeable relationship between innovation, imitation and invention. …The paper examines the challenges social scientists face when analysing innovation, especially R&D and innovation … activities of firms, i.e. their strategies in typical stages of an innovation process in a defined economy. The motivation behind …

related to the empirical analysis oftechnology innovation and diffusion. Finally,we conclude in Part 4 with some …

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

between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some … research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they discuss factors that help sustain these …

about the process of innovation and introduces <i>Inside Real Innovation</i>. <i>Read more about the authors' interview …/article with <a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101201/mit-eugene-fitzgerald-understanding-innovation.html#">Inc.</a> and <a … href="http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/01/31/why-the-government-needs-to-invest-in-innovation …