The paper considers priority goals of future sustainable development and assurance of food quality and safety in agricultural and food sector and underlines the necessity of establishment of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) in Bulgaria based on a production model with...

The aim of the monograph is to discuss selected aspects of innovation performance of the Polish agri-food sector and highlight its key determinants and prospects for improvements. Chapters: Innovativeness and competitiveness of national economies. Factors influencing development of innovations...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the evolution and interaction over time of the functions of a technological innovation system (TIS) based on the concept of an innovation motor. Design/methodology/approach It is a case study of the innovation system associated with the technology for producing...

Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from standard grant schemes towards a region-oriented and competition-based R&D policy. Currently, a new policy experiment, the InterClust contest, is under way, trying to simultaneously foster place-based...

This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventors' changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on the probability of citations in US patents filed between...