modules over the past few years. This dissertation takes you on a magic carpet ride through the technological innovation … solar technology. You will track the development stages of the innovation system in China, meet the main actors, get to know …

Written by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this … why competence building and innovation are crucial for economic growth and competitiveness in the current era. It also …1. The objective : to stimulate a knowledge-based debate about innovation policy -- 2. Innovation -- 3. The innovation …

China has long wanted and envisioned the development of self-innovation as a means to drive its economy to one of the … argument that innovation is the primary way that increasing economic returns are achieved and that this is what drives economic … growth. There is a long trail of attempts to build an innovation based economy in China but until quite recently the progress …

It has been shown that firms tend to develop different modes of innovation triggered by the relationship between … innovation; second, relating them to firms' innovative and economic performance; and, analyzing the relationship between the … different innovation modes and the economic impact of the crisis on the firms' performance. These hypotheses are tested by …