Social innovation is acknowledged as one of the most promising tools of civic engagement and cross-sector partnerships … innovation. It considers the essence of social innovation, discusses the critical role of the third sector as a favorable … environment for the production of such innovation, and describes structural characteristics of third sector organizations which …

mixed. Austria performs well in the manufacturing industries but is lagging in the service sector compared to the innovation … leader countries of the “European Innovation Scoreboard”. The diffusion gap goes hand in hand with low adoption rates in …

Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European … policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and … general framework conditions for innovation and growth. Austria has increased its R&D spending as a share of GDP over the last …

of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). Descriptive statistics indicate that the rate of innovators is quite similar … deeper rooted in the underlying innovation systems than the existing literature may assume. …

countries. We look at innovation inputs, outputs, and examine how strong foreign-owned enterprises are embedded in the … innovations systems of their host countries. We find that foreign ownership causes no differences in innovation input, but yields … a higher innovation output and higher labour productivity. In four of the five countries, affiliates of foreign …