economies and, in light of the predictions of endogenous growth models, suggests that technological innovation is the only way … of innovation policies by studying a broad set of Science and Technology (S&T) indicators for the BICs, trying in this …

and national performancewith regard to innovation, entrepreneurship and difference in the industrial structure.The central …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We … identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical … investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance is conducive to economic …

"Innovation is good for you" appears actually the common feature of most science, technology and innovation studies … over the last decades. This appears, however surprising given the fact that innovation failure rather than innovation … lecture: could it be that innovation is not always good for you? A frequently heard argument is that at a societal level …

Innovation is often considered to be a typical activity of the developed countries. If we put behind the leading … excellence research institutions and the high educated specialists we can tell that innovation is, in the end, the attempt to … innovation and economic growth in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEE). Even if this part of Europe was highly …

Innovation is largely held to be unlikely in rural regions. This reflects the current emphasis on regional innovations … metric the observation about rural innovation is largely true. However, a broader concept of innovation, which includes the … actions of individual inventors/entrepreneurs opens the possibility of rural innovation. Not only do we see significant …

innovation, the latter proxied by R&D expenditures and patent statistics. We distinguish between publicly and privately-funded R …. The results are sensitive to the sample analyzed and indicate that the relationship between innovation efforts and growth …