The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be … considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change …

Innovation policy is in need for a rational which allows the design and evaluation of policy instruments. In economic … intervene and which instrument should be applied. In innovation policy this rational cannot meaningfully be applied because of … the uncertain and open character of innovation processes. Uncertainty is not a market failure and cannot be repaired …

, redirecting firms' innovation activities towards ecological targets without hampering their competitiveness is of paramount … avoid sub-optimal commitment of resources to the innovation process and ensure the reduction of polluting agents emissions … chemical domain so as to draw useful insights on the effect of the policy aiming at redirecting innovation activities to …

We present the results of an empirical study of the national innovation systems of countries in the Iberian Peninsula … previous approaches that used cluster analyses as a methodological framework to analyze national innovation systems from a CSNE … perspective, we use a novel approach based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) to rank innovation performance. We show how …