Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq Ahmad, William Horsman, and Phaedra Kaptein-Russell of Industry Canada provides support for this view by finding a strong positive relationship between measures of fundamental...

To focus on processes of scientific and technological design and on how newly designed objects are used in different ways than initially intended (“displaced”), the organizers (the Society for Social Studies on Science-4S and the European Association of Studies on Science and...

In the context of increasing globalization, global competition and rapid change the EU sees innovation and its commercialization as an effective way to build long-term global competitive advantage. Innovation policy is a link between research and technological development policy and industrial...

In the modern conditions of the post-COVID world, the transformation of the world economy in the framework of the transition to the post-industrial paradigm, and the economy of "knowledge", the national innovation system (NIS) plays a leading role in the formation of competitive sectors of any...

Since 1932, when Justice Louis Brandeis remarked that in a federal system states can serve as "laboratories" of democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy behind this belief, using a simple model of voting in...

Business intelligence and knowledge management seems to gain the attention of the society regarding the benefits that brings to it when this two domains are considered as a whole. The advantage of using business intelligence in order to take decisions and bring innovation to the business, are...

The article investigates the "systemic" dimension of the existing institutional‑legal and organizational peculiarities of the innovation policy in Ukraine, based on the IS approach, which is seen as one of the main guidelines for the innovation policy formation, and, in particular, underlies...

Innovation has nowadays become the main force to cope with challenging times in the fast-changing world. The influence of public sector innovation (PSI) in resolving dynamic economical and societal challenges is undisputable. Regardless of the numerous advantages of innovation in the public...

Michael Berlemann und Vera Jahn, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, liefern in diesem Beitrag eine qualitative und quantitative Abgrenzung des Mittelstands und zeigen auf, dass sich mit Hilfe dieser Abgrenzung die Hypothese stützen lässt, dass mittelständische Unternehmen...

Unternehmensgründungen sowie kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen kommen im Innovationsprozess bei der Entwicklung, Nutzung und Verbreitung von Forschungsergebnissen eine bedeutende Rolle zu. Dies machte der internationale Workshop zum Zusammenhang zwischen Unternehmensgründungen, Innovationen...