Geographic scale has been central to the debate on studies on technological innovation. Through a brief examination of China's science and technology history since the 1950s, this study suggests that the role of the state is crucial for understanding the structuring, restructuring and...

This study uses a variety of indicators such as patent grants, new product sales, and R&D spending to examine the spatial patterns of industrial innovation in China during the 1990s. It is found that industrial innovation in China has been concentrated in the coastal areas, and the spatial...

In recent decades, both South Korea and Taiwan have made remarkable leaps in the development and production of semiconductors — the core element in burgeoning global telecommunications, computer, and computer equipment industries. Although many aspects of their sectoral industrial strategies...

Along just a few decades, China has undergone huge economic changes, managing an impressive catching-up drive. But although its past accomplishments are undeniably outstanding in terms of extensive development, the country has also accumulated multiple distortions and structural imbalances and...

This case presents the design and implementation of the Innovation Summit in Pakistan, which is organized following the Triple Helix model.The case study includes valuable information on the transferability of this initiative to other developing countries

To better understand how academic research can contribute to innovative growth and to assess how Europe is and could be doing in this respect, we review the analysis and evidence of business science links and Europe's record on this. The evidence and analysis shows that the link between science...

Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing today in exchange for incentives for firms to develop new products. While existing research demonstrates that expected profits fuel R&D investments, little is known about the novelty of funded projects. We expand this literature...

The main topic related to science in the previous year was the National Project (NP) “Science” and federal projects implemented under its framework. Considering the speed of budget funds allocation, NP “Science” was one of the most dynamic one among projects of similar status. The...

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the...