New operational definitions of incremental innovation, standard innovation, and radical innovation, are constructed using our ‘technometric benchmarking’ model. Based on this definition, optimal incremental innovation is formulated as a linear programming problem. The model is illustrated by...

How efficiently do countries translate scientific and technological excellence into export comparative advantage? Here the use of science and technology in generating exports is first modelled as a two-stage process. A variant of linear programming (data envelopment analysis, DEA) is then...

Foran objective function, how should each argument be assigned itsappropriate role in the change of the objective function, whenthe arguments are interrelated? In this paper, it is shown thatthe commonly used approaches may lead to results contradictoryto straightforward economic reasoning, and...

This paper reports on the first large-sample survey of management attitudes among over 1,400 Russian mid-level managers and 740 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). We find that while CEOs focus on knowledge of finances, company operations and legislation, as ideal CEO's qualities, mid-level...

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on demand-driven innovation, using a generic national innovation ecosystem map as a unifying framework. We organize the literature review around four key innovation dimensions and seven related demand-driven processes. Our review...

This paper reviews a number of criticisms made of the World Model. These criticisms suggest substantially greater parameter change than allowed by the original studies. When this is done, the results change, and the basic behaviour mode can exhibit , depending on the parameter values, collapse,...