This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study is concerned with change in the factors that drive and support innovation, focusing on the … framework that recognises both the strongly systemic nature of innovation and the inexorable processes of transformation in an … increasingly international competitive context. It brings together sectoral innovation system approaches and frameworks for …

and public policy discussions - increasingly on issues of globalisation, innovation and 'competitiveness'. These issues … internationalisation of the innovation process', International Journal of the Economics of Business, 5(3), 261-277. [Available at http …

the workstation markets inresponse to a new technology: reduced instruction set computing (RISC). In the PC market …

technological capabilities or not. I predict and find that in low complementarity contexts, as technology advances, customer demand … logistic regression models, I find that as technology in an industry advances, technological capabilities become weaker drivers …

The federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and its parallel Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR …In 2008 Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) joined forces to …) program provide over $2.2 billion annually to help small companies take their innovation technologies to the next level with …

marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project … is: “How can communities across the South harness the economic potential of technology and innovation?” Georgia … those who already recognized the importance of innovation and technology, that familiarity enabled many of them to identify …