sources, endangering the continuity of the technology transfer function and creating disincentives to invest in its …

This contribution focuses on the heterogeneity in innovation capacity within Europe across its different Member States … crisis affected this trend of convergence? We then take a look at the research and innovation policies which the EU countries … have in place and try to assess whether these policies match with the heterogeneous EU countries' innovation capacity …

The bulk of innovation subsidies in Finland are allocated to firms in industries where the employment share of … among young firms. At the firm level, an increase in innovation subsidies is typically associated with an inflow of … innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …

The aim of the project is to analyze government support for innovation in a comparative perspective by first examining … the main existing instruments of financial support for innovation in Turkey and Poland, and secondly to assess their … effectiveness by applying recent econometric techniques to firm-level data for both countries obtained from the Community Innovation …

The aim of this paper is to broaden the knowledge concerning the development of Finnish firms’ innovation activities … results suggest that Finnish firms invest approximately Eur 1.8 billion in innovation activities outside the traditional R …

For many years, analysis on innovations focused on high technology industries which were treated as synonymous with … high competitiveness and growth. New research on low and medium technology industries has revealed that their growth is … also based on innovations, though their sources differ from high technology industries. As the 'catching up' economies of …

technology) in the three countries. After employing cluster analysis, five types of innovation patterns were detected. The paper …This paper investigates the differences in innovation behaviour, i.e. differences in innovation sources and innovation … into account: innovation inputs in enterprises, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with …

This paper investigates the barriers to innovation perceived by Polish manufacturing firms. It refers to the … heterogeneity of innovation active firms. We introduce a taxonomy of innovative firms based on the frequency with which they … introduce commercialised innovations using data from both CIS4 (for 2002-2004) and CIS5 (2004-2006). Two groups of innovation …

geprägt. Zentrales Element ist der Wissensaustausch, der die Umsetzung einer Innovation erst ermöglicht. Die dabei generierten …, functionalities and challenges of this joint innovation develop-ment. These processes often start with resource constraints or …-tral element in this context is knowledge exchange, which is what makes the implementation of an innovation possible. The resulting …

replaced by other activities within the innovation process. We find that for realizing product innovations RnD is the most … important factor. Thereby the role of RnD is higher the more radical an innovation is. In contrast, process and non …