The main theme of this report - innovation processes in services - is a fascinating and stimulating subject. Further, it is a subject that is of vital importance to innovation studies in general and, moreover one that has implications for the overall development of industrial innovation...

Denne rapporten er en evaluering av Statens Nærings- og distriktsutviklingfonds (SND) bedriftsrettede tiltak, og i rapporten vi vil behandle de følgende temaene: SNDs målsettinger og virkemidler Historisk utvikling av næringspolitikk i Norge, og etableringen av SND Teoretiske og praktiske...

Current understanding of innovation and technical change emphasises the importance of the systemic dimensions to innovation performance. Being a basis for the innovation system approach for analysing innovation activities, this emphasises the need for understanding economic and technological...

The purpose of this paper is to outline the concept of technological infrastructures and to give a broad discussion of policy approaches to these infrastructures. I first outline some general features of generic technology or knowledge; the area that has been the prime focus of market failure...

This paper presents the economic rationales of government intervention into innovation activities and into the supply of innovation-related services as inputs in innovation processes. There are two approaches to the question of the economic rationale of government involvement in technological...

Med dette notatet ønsker vi å bidra til en økt forståelse av tjenestesektorens økonomiske og teknologiske betydning i Norge. Denne sektoren har nå et omfang som i seg selv skaper behov for en slik forståelse. På den annen side peker de klare tegnene på et gjensidig økonomisk og...

There has been a considerable gap between efforts to understand innovation and other change processes, and ongoing structural changes in national economies. The SI4S project has aimed at developing concepts, empirical evidence and proposals for practical action concerning the role of services in...

This paper is an outline of some of the issues that are addressed in the TSER funded project, SI4S - Services in Innovation, Innovation in Services. In the paper we discuss the role of services, with a particular emphasis of knowledge intensive services, in innovation processes. We address both...

Concepts of innovation systems have attracted considerable interest over the last decade. These ideas have rapidly become the focus of policy discourse and formulation. The ultimate aim of innovation system approaches is that endogenising innovation performance may be achieved through...