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Purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of a new cultural institution, "medialab". Media laboratory is an interdisciplinary institution that combines the tasks of scientific, educational, cultural and artistic institutions. They are spaces in which technology and digital media are...
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Science-industry collaboration is one of the major channels for transferring new scientific ideas into economic applications. Whereas the factors leading to collaboration are reasonably well understood, the determinants of the outcomes generated by such collaboration are unknown. This paper...
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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...
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This paper examines policy measures that foster the creation of innovations with high inherent potential and that simultaneously provide the right incentives for individuals to create and expand firms that disseminate such innovations in the form of highly valued products. In so doing, we...
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Global policy discussions increasingly focus on innovation and the knowledge economy as a driver of long-term growth. In parallel new forms of innovation processes are emerging, notably open innovation and innovation networks stressing the importance of connections between various stakeholders....
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Public emergencies although will typically reduce the total social welfare, it may force enterprises to seek innovation. Based on a simple game-theoretic model, we argue that the motivation of accelerating the advanced technology adoption decreases with firms’ initial technology endowment,...
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Zu Recht gilt die Erhöhung der Innovationstätigkeit in Ostdeutschland inzwischen als wichtigstes politisches Handlungsfeld des Aufbau Ost: Zum einen kann unter den Bedingungen globalen Wettbewerbs ein hohes Einkommens- und Beschäftigungsniveau auf Dauer nur durch fortgesetzte Stärkung der...
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the innovative success of R&D cooperation projects and project characteristics. Patent applications and publications are … patent applications, but not to publications. Conversely, university involvement has positive effects on project outcomes in … terms of publications but not in terms of patent applications. In general, projects’ funding is an important predictor of …
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technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …-CRIOS database, covering all patent applications made to the European Patent Office (EPO), we try to model the systemic nature of …
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This paper analyzes the effects of mixed public-private Ramp;D incentives and empirically tests whether patents that were publicly sponsored are more quot;importantquot; than non-subsidized ones. Blending patents and public subsidies will allow the funding agency to subsidize inventions that...
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