investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

communities involved in the translation of biomedical innovation and health technologies from the laboratory bench to point of …

data on patent applications, in KETs-mapped classes of the International Patent Classification (IPC), with a number of …

Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with … patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in narrow technological fields, such as many environment …-related technologies. To improve cross-country comparability of patent statistics, the paper advocates the use of indicators based on …

– proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation … these measures of innovation intensity and MFP growth. Innovation-specific policies such as R&D tax incentives, direct … government support and patent rights are found to be successful in encouraging the innovative activities associated with higher …

2003-2010 to explore the extent to which changes in the patent stock are associated with flows of capital and labour to …