“Production” and “transfer” of knowledge, and the role of institutions, are two major conceptual tenets of Innovation … paper discusses how such conceptual framework matters for the analysis of innovation processes and what are its policy …

In recent decades there have been an enormous number of studies about innovation systems, partly inspired by a great … development strategies. Despite different perspectives, most studies highlight knowledge creation and innovation as the major … drivers of change and growth. This consensus disappears, however, as soon as the complexity of innovation and knowledge are …

in intellectual property rights on the patenting and innovation strategies of Chinese and Western firms operating in … property rights and legal institutions that foster R&D and innovation, and when Western firms gain longer operational … informal institutional environments. It also provides important implications for policy and innovation strategies for …

This paper reviews various approaches to measuring business innovation from the angle of capturing social innovations … and offers several methodological and policy conclusions. First, the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) indicators in … principle could be useful in settings where the dominant mode of innovation is based on R&D activities. In practice, however …

This paper reviews various approaches to measuring business innovation from the angle of capturing social innovations … and offers several methodological and policy conclusions. First, the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) indicators in … principle could be useful in settings where the dominant mode of innovation is based on R&D activities. In practice, however …

innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules with the objective to … innovation) and the benefits associated with returns to scale. We derive conditions for optimal diversity under different regimes …

This paper reviews recent economic theorising on innovation from the angle of analysing social innovations (SI). It is … structured as follows: Some of the basic notions used in innovation analyses are considered in section 2, focusing on the subject …, objectives and levels of change. Section 3 reviews how innovation is understood in particular models of innovation and analysed …

understand these changes. This claim is based on our review of Innovation Studies, Social Innovation research, and Sustainability …