How does Norwegian innovation performance compare with other countries, especially with respect to small firms? This report explores this question, using data from the Community Innovation survey for 1992. We look at two broad issues. Firstly, we explore R&D performance, where we try to go...

This paper addresses a central problem for economic analysis and public policy in Europe. Should Europe focus on so-called high-technology or science-based industries in attempting to solve growth and employment problems? Or should it look to the growth prospects within the industries on which...

Bakgrunnen for denne artikkelen er ideen om at en industris vekst og utvikling er avhengig av dens teknologiske fundament. De industrier som innehar teknologiske muligheter for produkt-og prosessinnovasjoner, betegner vi som dynamiske industrier. Det er disse underliggende innovasjonsmulighetene...

The term corporate governance relates to how corporations, firms, organizations etc. are owned, managed and controlled. This is an issue which has been the subject of much debate in recent years.1 The general reason for this, of course, is that how firms are managed matters a good deal for their...

Rapporten vurdere SIVAs internasjonale engasjement med utgangspunkt i en ex ante prosjektvurdering, spesielt i forhold til (antatte) distrikts- og regionalpolitiske effekter av SIVAs internasjonale engasjement, og konkluderer med: At SIVAs næringsparker i hovedsak fremstår som et SMB-orientert...

This report analyses to what extent register data on employees can be utilised to study stocks and flows of personnel in a national innovation systems perspective. The registers contain information on each single employee in the three countries in the study (Sweden, Norway and Finland),...

This report summarizes the Nordic research project behind the music - Profiting from Sound: A Systems Approach to the Dynamics of Nordic Music Industry. The project was funded by The Nordic Industrial Fund (Center for Innovation and Commercial Development) which is an institution under the...

This report is the result of six industrial studies performed for the RITTS Oslo project (Regional Innovation Infrastructure and Technology Transfer Systems in the Oslo region). The project was initiated by Oslo and Akershus Business Council in 1998, with financial support from the Commission of...

Corporate governance is concerned with the institutions that influence the ways in which business corporations allocate resources and returns. Our approach to the analysis of corporate governance and its policy implications focuses on its relation to the innovation process and the innovative...

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...