effective bankruptcy procedures and new forms of business financing. However, convergence will also require policy settings that … role of workplace training will be important. So too will be further measures that support the innovation capacity of the … business sector, including innovation policies that promote the absorptive capacity of firms and do not favour incumbents at …

Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries … an industry-specific policy propagates across the network of innovating firms through technological linkages. Following …

market region increases a regional firm’s probability to innovate between 0.3 and 0.9 percentage points. This effect is … driven by firms within labor market regions receiving a high number of Excellence Clusters. There is no statistically …

In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different … interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft … 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are two kinds of regional innovation occurring in these examples. The first …

market region increases a regional firm's probability to innovate between 0.3 and 0.9 percentage points. This effect is … driven by firms within labor market regions receiving a high number of Excellence Clusters. There is no statistically …

institutions and policy about the promotion of academic consulting. …

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 …

policy questions about novelty and the meaning of prior art …

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 …