The concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a popular term as a result of making it a cross … desirability of the innovation process and its products. The work presents a review of the state-of-art scientific literature on … Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) together with a synthesis of theoretical and practical challenges faced by this new …

finance generates more innovation and industrial emergence …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

The second larger Estonian R&D and Innovation Strategy ‘Knowledge-based Estonia 2007-2013' is aimed at continuing the …-side innovation policies in helping to advance commercial development and innovation …

Innovation is a collective process that entails the coordination of distributed knowledge across diverse organizations …. Technology infrastructures provide innovation systems with governance mechanisms to create and sustain complementarities across … otherwise dispersed competences. The paper presents innovation platforms as a specific case of technology infrastructure …

We study the underlying mechanisms of technological innovation in SMEs in the context of ex-post evaluation of European … technological investment. To do so, we take an approach that is novel in innovation studies: a Bayesian Network Analysis to assess … the effectiveness of EU policy instrument for technological innovation and to determine the mechanisms by which the policy …

How are OECD countries supporting digital innovation and ensuring that benefits spread across the economy? This paper … explores the current landscape of strategies and initiatives implemented in OECD countries to support innovation in the digital …) strategies. The paper also discusses policy instruments used across OECD to support digital innovation targeting four objectives …

Innovation processes consist of interactive learning mechanisms that combine different knowledge sources. Using a set … of 72 exploratory interviews with small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and regional innovation consultants, this … paper analyzes the combination of STI (science-technology -innovation) and DUI (innovation based on learning …

partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation …