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 … Summary Innovation Index. The main weaknesses are in business R&D intensity, the share of the population with tertiary …

angles, and using various sources and types of information (patent statistics, the Community Innovation Survey data, evidence … one or two major research questions. In contrast, this paper tackles both R&D and innovation collaborations among …, conducting R&D and innovation activities diametrically differ in business and academia; and (ii) different types of firms have …

be tailored to the innovation system in question, just as the concomitant policy recommendations. … research questions. In contrast, this article tackles both research and development (R&D) and innovation collaborations among … research findings - have also confirmed that (i) motivations, incentives for, and norms of conducting R&D and innovation …

evolutionary economics perspective of innovation, which includes an understanding of the learning process that occurs in the … milieu appears to be the main source of innovation, but also because it underlines some of the complexities of tacit …

effective translation into innovation. Their force of attraction stems from their ability to lower variable costs in innovative … innovation policies and strategic industrial policies in general …

We investigate how reforms that ease or restrict human mobility affect global innovation. We leverage a unique dataset … mobility contributed to the global shift in the geography of innovation towards emerging markets …

Smart specialization has become a hallmark of the EU's Cohesion Policy. Envisaged as a bottom-up initiative identifying … limited, as a coherent set of analytical tools to guide the policy directives remains elusive. To tackle the weak underpinning … of smart specialization policy, we propose a policy framework around the concepts of relatedness and knowledge complexity …

This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … seperately provide barriers to imitation, but may also reinforce each other as complements. In several ways, the results provide … seems to be essential for many SMEs because of their informal mode of learning and innovation characterized by experience …

vulnerabilities. Such structural reform issues will require RCI policies that complement domestic policy reform. This introduction …

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