The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence the Internal Process Innovation (IPI) Activity … manufacturing small, medium and large enterprises were examined and a set of hypotheses, regarding their innovation activity, were …) and the electronic information exchange between business partners are positively related to firm's process innovation …

industrial development in China. Third, we provide evidence on achievements in indigenous innovation—by which we mean …, we sketch out the implications of our approach for current debates on the role of innovation in China’s development path …

In this introductory article to the EIT ICT Labs we outline its innovation ecosystem and recap the underlying motives … Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) that was founded in …

The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross … desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on … Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new …

This paper attempts to give an economic perspective of the impact of the innovation industries. The estimation method …, as higher employment and wages/capita in innovation industries are accompanied by higher employment and lower … influence of research and development activities. All these effects point to the sustainability of innovation industries, which …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a; production function; of innovation for European regions …

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. We do … would increase the innovation of the region itself by 80-90%. Given the small size and the limited range of diffusion, we …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …

We contribute to the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) literature in two ways: (i) we consider how societal … aspects are taken into account in research and innovation activities in four fundamentally different futures, as opposed to … efficacy and efficiency of policy-making; legitimacy of research and innovation activities; societal involvement; equity; and …

, studies on the economics of food safety innovation are relatively rare. We designed a series of case studies of such … innovation in the meat industry. Our objectives were to identify and analyze different types of innovation, the drivers of … innovation, the mode of innovation development, and the impact of innovation on food safety and firm performance. Here we present …