investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

This chapter reviews conceptual frameworks to understand and measure innovation, and then outlines links between … innovation and the concepts of entrepreneurship, the informal economy (IE) and intellectual property (IP). The review suggests … that the time is ripe for African policy-makers to seek more holistic approaches to facilitating innovation and, in turn …

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

capturing value from innovation. We present evidence from the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey to demonstrate that IP is used by U …

activity, as well as the birth and death of enterprises. IPR enforcement disproportionately increases innovation spending in R …

innovation activities, as evidenced by patent applications. Interestingly, when controlling for firm attributes we do not find …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies.Radical innovation occurs when technology from two distinct industrial clusters are … crossed, resulting in an entirely new product. In contrast, sustaining innovation usually involves adding technological …

knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …