topics innovation, catch-up, and sustainability. Innovation is driving catch-up processes and is the condition for a … dynamics, heterogeneity, novelty, and innovation as well as transformation are the most attractive fields in economics today … better understanding of innovation, catch-up, and sustainability, and Schumpeterian economics in general. …

We present the results of an empirical study of the national innovation systems of countries in the Iberian Peninsula … previous approaches that used cluster analyses as a methodological framework to analyze national innovation systems from a CSNE … perspective, we use a novel approach based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) to rank innovation performance. We show how …