innovating firms is being strengthened, support for innovation is being rationalised and measures are being taken to increase …Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been … sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS …

This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … insights into some of the appropriation strategies taken by smaller firms. For example, a staff-related appropriation strategy … seems to be essential for many SMEs because of their informal mode of learning and innovation characterized by experience …

knowledge regarding a particular secondary effect, the role of public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation. The paper … discusses public procurement of innovation as a knowledge policy in the learning economy, and scrutinizes it from a knowledge …