, integration in global markets and value chains to provide the scale, scope andcompetition to drive learning and innovation. This …

(Metcalfe 1995; Metcalfe and Gherghiou 1998); and that this implies the need of having a Strategic Level of Innovation Policy … to present a thorough justification of the strategic level of Innovation Policy in terms of a Systems Evolutionary … being to identify and specify strategic priorities for Science, Technology, Higher Education and Commercial Innovation) and …

who are unable to innovate fail to survive in the market resulting in them leaving the market. The result in innovation … structure resulting in innovation which plays a crucial role in a country’s long term economic growth was a direct challenge to …

While catch up theory assumes that innovation takes place in a linear models andthat path dependant trajectories … characterizes the innovation process, "innovation take off"rests on the premises that innovation systems need strong policy impulses … from governmentfor innovation to effectively take place. Innovation take off is the prerequisite for innovationsystems to …

There are three essays on the economics of information technology innovation in my dissertation:1. Procurement … procurement strategies. The second essay investigates information technology hardware innovation. I examine R and D offshoring of … software innovation. I investigate open source software and its impact on the design of proprietary software in terms of number …

This thesis investigates the relevance of currently used firm-level innovation concepts in a developing country context …-level innovation and tests hypotheses regarding the impact of firms organizational structure, strategies, resources and environment as … Keith Pavitts model of technology trajectories to better understand the nature of innovation and its production determinants …

Plenary 1: Redefining development goals: Science, Technology and Innovation, sustainable growth, improvement of income …

institutional settings. There is a much alluded-to,but under-investigated, link between economic growth, innovation systems, and … institutions.There is widespread agreement among most economists on the positive reinforcing linkbetween innovation and growth …. However, the importance of institutions as catalysts in thislink has not been adequately examined. The concept of innovation …

It is now widely recognized that Universities can play a fundamental role on the performance of the firms’ innovation … and Walsh, 2002; Arocena and Sutz, 2001). In the pursuit of innovation, firms interact with other organizations to gain …. Structural and innovation effort related factors have been introduced in a logistic model (logit binomial and multinomial models …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although …Parallel session 2: Innovation and firm performance …