investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

their inward looking or exploitationʺ attitude in R&D and innovation. We argue that because of sunk costs and learning …. Among other things, this suggests that explorationʺ, which leads to the opening of new innovation trajectories, requires not …

, we find that innovation performance exhibits a high degree of inertia. Further, some other observed firm characteristics … be relevant determinants of the likelihood of innovation …

On behalf of the Federal Government of Germany, the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation presents its …

On behalf of the Federal Government of Germany, the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation presents its … and innovation in Part C are presented in a new format, which we hope will be more readily accessible for decision … 2010. The German innovation system has done fairly well in the crisis. In addition, appropriate importance has been …

technological policies of the federal and regional scales. No “breakthroughs” took place in the field of innovation technologies as …

science development were being structured and their activities were adapting to the new system of management. Innovation went … into a decline, the rate of which had increased by the end of the year. No new instruments of innovation policy were … introduced and the state of innovation was being significantly affected by the general conditions of economic activity, the …

Research and innovation are extremely important for Germany. New insights are generated by research, and new ways of … and innovation, and where the country ranks in the international innovation contest. The Federal Government of Germany … therefore decided in 2006 to establish an independent Commission of Experts on Research and Innovation (EFI), with the remit to …