We draw upon historical evidence from several countries and contemporary studies of national innovation systems to argue that indigenous systems of academic training and public researchhave been in the past important elements of the institutional structures supporting a country's economic catch...

Disruptive and radical innovations can lead to achieving a competitive edge in technology, design engineering, and entrepreneurship. Likewise, entrepreneurship can encourage more innovation. This article highlights the inter-relationships between these forces and how one can inform and action...

The vital role of entrepreneurship for economic growth and its impact for job creation in mature and developing economies is widely recognized and quantified (OECD, Entrepreneurship and Business Statistics, 2015). According to Get2growth data (How Many Startups Are There?, 2015), 100 million...

Fintech innovations - innovations by financial services providers based on digital technology - are widely believed to have a disruptive effect on the financial services industry. The purpose of the paper is to investigate how financial services industry participants perceive the effect of...

Since its introduction in the late seventies of the last century, mobile wireless communication has undergone significant stages of development, from analogue voice calls to nowadays latest state-of- the-art digital technology. The intense development of mobile communications networks, the...

Technological revolutions mark profound transformations in socio-economic systems. They are associated with the diffusion of general purpose technologies that display very high degrees of pervasiveness, dynamism and complementarity. This paper provides an in-depth examination of the technologies...

Innovation, particularly when realized through structured innovation process strategically contributes to firms’ mission to achieve and maintaining a long-term and sustainable competitive advantage. Recently, over half of the Fortune 500 companies have disappeared since 2000 by being merged,...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden ökologische und ökonomische Auswirkungen nachhaltiger Konsumweisen im Kontext der Collaborative Economy untersucht. Detaillierte Szenariobeschreibungen von flexiblem Carsharing liefern Daten für eine ökonomisch und ökologisch quantitative Bewertung. Die...

This paper proposes to explain the productivity growth slowdown with the poaching of disruptive inventors by firms these inventors threaten with their research. I build an endogenous growth model with incremental and disruptive innovation and an inventor labor market where this defensive...