How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … when combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation …

The interpretation and measurement of the innovation performance of territorial units represent well established … innovation performance is judged (considered to be effective or desirable). Innovation is certainly a spatial phenomenon. In … and neglected. The innovation performance of a territorial unit can be interpreted as the effectiveness of the system of …

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 …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies. In this column, the organization discusses the definition of innovation economics with …. The authors' reference the topic of innovation economics covered in a Business Week article, published earlier this fall …

In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years …, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national … innovation economy. The principal difference last year was that, first, the innovation vector of development (at least at the …

Last year, the subject of innovation development formed one of the top public policy priorities. That manifested itself …, and encouragement of the latter's innovation activities. The focus shifted onto huge projects, with Skolkovo being atop …

technological policies of the federal and regional scales. No “breakthroughs” took place in the field of innovation technologies as …

innovation capabilities can be improved, albeit from a low level. But the low hare of innovative firms and the huge difference … between the foreign-owned and indigenous firms' innovation activities highlight major challenges of the NIS. These figures …-2007 has not been long enough to find an appropriate position for science, technology and innovation (STI) in government …