emerging sectors such as biotechnology, it threatens to be. There is no intrinsic reason for Australia's poor innovation … technologies within established industries. The CEDA report contains analysis of Australia's recent innovation performance by a … group of leading innovation experts. The report argues that an effective national innovation system plays a central role in …

innovation. The following section focuses on innovation in low-tech industries specifically. This leads into a consideration of …

The papers collected in this volume are part of the OECD National Innovation Systems project, which seeks to explore … the possibilities for the quantification of systems approaches to innovation. Systems approaches see innovation as a …, in both their educational and knowledge creation functions, have been fundamental in shaping innovation capabilities and …

It is frequently claimed that innovation is essential to economic performance, but such claims are usually quite … precise empirical information that can help us make distinctions as to how innovation relates to economic performance, and … this is explored in this paper. We approach this task by looking at relationships between innovation, profitability and …

that these industries persist because of pervasive innovation within them: they are constantly renewed by technological …

innovation, either to reduce production costs for a given output, to create a new product or service, or to deliver products to …