technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major … World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting …

Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … importance of social networks in promoting innovation and reducing uncertainty. Our findings suggest that this “social” aspect of …

Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in … ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from … in the level of inter-sectoral technology flows. In this context, technological platforms - defined as knowledge and …

- soliciting a particular technology - or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to … the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … solicit specific technologies, to "Open topics," which invite firms to suggest any new technology that may be useful to the …

This study investigates the impacts of Chinese high-tech enterprise certification policy on enterprise innovation by … certification can promote Chinese enterprise innovation, especially the innovation captured by invention patents. The results of a … certification can influence enterprise innovation through tangible and intangible channels. The heterogeneity analysis shows that …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …