Research and innovation partnerships involving firms or firms and public research organizations (PROs) have been …

its capacities in the fields of science, technology and innovation (STI). The shares of both gross and business sector …

This paper reviews the major finance-related causes of private under-investment in innovation and the consequent … rationales, aims and targets, critical constraints, and the main finance-related instruments of innovation policy. …

This paper studies differences in the perception of innovation barriers between innovative and non-innovative firms for … 18 EU countries. The countries are grouped by their distance to the technological frontier using Community Innovation … Surveys for the years 2002-2004 and 2004-2006. The results show that non-innovators interested in innovation are much more …

unexpected depth of integration. According to many indicators, it is the largest economic region in the world, leading in many … disequilibria, its population is ageing and it did not follow its own innovation strategy. Three questions arise in this context: 1 … globalised world. This 7th Framework Programme project, with the acronym "WWWforEurope", will provide evidence-based research in …