Purpose The purpose of this paper is to give a deeper understanding of public procurement for innovation and civil … preparedness. The paper focuses on how the policy goals of innovation and preparedness are implemented in procurement practice, and … explores the issues that affect innovation- and preparedness-oriented procurement. Design/methodology/approach The study is …

in the USA and despite wide international expansion since the 1970s, the US market continues to serve as a testing ground …

innovation capability and innovation performance based on the theory of knowledge. Moderating roles of firm collaborative … transfer on firm innovation capability. The authors present a set of hypotheses concerning the relationships between inter …‐firm relationship strength and tacitness of knowledge transfer, extent of tacit knowledge transfer and innovation capability, and …

their similarities and differences from the rest of the country as an explanation to understand better the innovation …

be seen as a continuous innovation building on past changes brought about by in‐home shopping methods such as catalog, TV …

explored. Two existing national councils (USA and Switzerland) are discussed as exemplars. This paper argues that these …

Innovation policy has received little attention in the business press. The business press generally focusses on how to … to stimulate more innovation by reforming intellectual property law? A growing part of the economy (e.g. services …, information technology) is only weakly protected under current intellectual property law. One possible way to encourage innovation …

Maintains that a core issue for the international competitiveness of US corporations is that of the innovation …