technical skills and human capital. Each of these may help to reduce the costs of imitation, adaption, and follow-on innovation … required for continued use and repair of new technologies at the onset of adoption. This study reveals that it is a combination … of market, regulatory and cultural conditions that contribute to the arena in which dissemination and adoption of …

This volume deals with the dynamics of science-based innovation. The transfer of the latest scientific results to … commercial innovation is of ever more importance today. This implies that competitiveness in modern technologies is no more the … institutions. The volume displays the state of the art in this interesting emerging research field between (economic) innovation …