Does heightened employer-friendly trade secrecy protection help or hinder innovation? By examining U.S. state …-friendly trade secrecy adversely affects innovation. We then investigate why. We do not find empirical support for diminished idea …

This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by … starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since Schumpeter. It concludes that newness, value creation and process are … time and again considered as the key-elements of innovation. Innovation, hence, may be summarized as the process of …

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical … of these issues the concept of a regional innovation system is presented in some detail and an overview of results from … recent research on regional innovation systems is given. The paper then discusses basic policy options and names a number of …

innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the …

the method is in inadequate quality of Russian statistics. On the second stage, the authors identified innovation clusters …? procedures. Centers had formed clusters, which were organized by principal of innovation cycle: fundamental and applied science … settlement, are the centers for generation and diffusion of innovation on the northern periphery. Emerging innovation clusters in …

in regional clusters. This challenge is even greater for its critically important innovation activities, including … networks, a detailed picture of the photovoltaic industry innovation and its constituent regional clusters is constructed. This … photovoltaic clusters' innovation growth pattern, in so far as they can be revealed by bibliometric indicators. In order to select …

Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation … technological development. The third step was an assessment of CEECs innovation and R&D policies, and their linkages with …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

importance to the study of the innovation process, only recently research has started to attempt to trace researchers …’ intersectoral mobility When looking for ways to improve the transfers from science to innovation, most of the attention in the … universities to innovation based growth, should take a long-term perspective for developing an industry-science eco …

South Australia is a small economy that faces a fundamental need to re-shape its approach to innovation. The … necessitates a re-think about how innovation happens and how the respective actors within an economy interact and engage with each … other. In effect, innovation relies on intersections between people, knowledge, information sharing, ideas, financial and …