investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

the study of science and innovation for more than a half-century. Although substantial evidence exists regarding the …

We provide evidence that risk aversion leads pharmaceutical firms to underinvest in radical andnovel innovation. We do …, reducing their willingness to investin potentially valuable radical innovation …

This paper aims to provide an overview of the recently introduced demand based innovation policy instrument in Finland … - the Strategic Centers for Science, Technology and Innovation (in Finnish - SHOKs). SHOKs are formed to support the … innovative activities of existing industries in Finland with emphasis on industrial renewal through innovation. The focus in this …

a potential impediment to innovation resulting from patenting and enforcement of IPR obtained on academic research …

optimal incentives for innovation. For chemical inventions, the courts deem them unpatentable if the chemical lacks a … innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in …