innovation by creating an environment that encourages collaboration, skill development, and local innovation. …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

Innovation activities at firm-level are often significantly influenced by factors that determine the outcome of the … innovation process. The primary aim of this paper is to study and empirically verify the role of several determinants that affect … in early 2014 and covers issues related to innovation activities, commercialization of innovation and also public support …

survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …

The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation … activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen … as the main precondition of successful innovation. However, the successful transformation of R&D investment into …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …