-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor market institutions – affect the group-innovation relationship. The empirical …, GAFs are more innovative than SAFs: we estimate the innovation propensity of GAFs to be 9% higher than that of SAFs …

generates very poor gross domestic products. To reverse this trend, African countries must build innovation-based economies …

This paper explores the links between open innovation and the emergence of a phoenix industry - the low carbon vehicles … innovation" approaches in driving the sector, for example noting that smaller firms can sometimes innovate more quickly …

innovation but also owing to a lot of other reasons, clusters are usually considered as key instruments for promoting …Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more … adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … clusters helps to take into account regional peculiarities and engage the most innovative local actors into the process of … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers …

The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe … and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the … shift in innovation power by concentrating on factors within the rising powers, such as their investment in high …

the basis of the cluster idea. Clusters represent an important instrument for promoting industrial development, innovation …The study of economic agents’ behaviour, whose nowadays tendency is to group themselves in space as clusters, has an … economies of localizing - to a certain branch, whose companies form clusters in certain geographical arias, and the urbanization …

questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …