this innovation but may also choose to opt out of the relationship upon learning the quality of the idea. While first …-best efficiency requires that all marginal returns on innovation be left to the developer, second-best efficiency taking into account …

value chains, upgrading and sectoral patterns of innovation in Latin America. We find that sectoral specificities matter and …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze innovations and the innovation system and its dynamics in the ethanol sector in … processes involved in innovation and technology transfer. Based on these observations, the ethanol cluster and the innovation …

order to carry out innovation. This endogenous threshold level falls as the economy moves closer to the technological … frontier, enabling more entrepreneurs to be engaged in an innovation-based strategy, and consequently, moving the economy from … a technological structure that is based on imitation of foreign technologies to one where domestic innovation dominates …

In this survey, we examine the operations of innovation processes within industrial districts by exploring the ways in … embeddedness on innovation. We also consider the effect of forms of organization within industrial districts at various stages of … product and process life, and we examine the negative aspects of embeddedness for innovation. We conclude with a discussion of …

contribute to economic growth through two main channels. The first one is innovation, characterized by the introduction of new …

technology leader. The paper also discusses general implications of this case study for strategy and organization for innovation. …