population growth possible. The second is an improvement in institutions that promote innovation, such as property rights: the …

Purpose – Climate change adaptation (CCA) has emerged as a significant new theme in development and many large … development agencies, including bilateral, multilateral or non‐government, are embarking on new programs focusing on CCA. However …, the development sector has witnessed the rise and fall of many new development themes over the past 60 years around which …

stage of its development.  …

Total quality management programmes applied to research and development often produce great improvements in … organisational overhauls which highlight the contribution to the innovation process made by the marketing, engineering, and …

This paper deals with the characteristics of two basic elements for the study of innovation in the firm: the concept of … technological innovation, which is defined as a flow magnitude; and the concept of technology, which is defined as a stock magnitude …. The technological innovation process is characterized by: being of a continuous nature; being path dependent; being …

This article reviews the changing understanding of the word “innovation”. It contains a summary of the critical … criteria for innovation to take place, based upon a study of previous researchers’ work in this area. Explores the way in which … developments in materials and other technologies have acted to allow innovation to take place. It is argued that materials …

Purpose Science and technology innovation policy has important strategic significance with respect to the promotion of … an innovation orientation in our country, and the classification and measurement of regional science and technology … innovation policy urgently require research attention. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, we use text mining and …

Purpose Previous IMP research has shown that innovation benefits tend to gravitate across organisational, company and … legal borders. However, OECD and EU policy assume that innovation investments will create benefits in close spatial relation … to where these were made. The overall purpose of this paper is to consider how opportunities and obstacles of innovation …