Although the impacts of greenhouse gas build-up remain uncertain, they have the potential to be very serious and possibly catastrophic. If the outcomes are serious then neither improving energy efficiency nor adaptation policies will cope with the problems of warming. Reducing climate impacts...

Denne rapporten viser resultater fra en evaluering av SIVA gjennomført fra januar til september 2000. SIVAs hovedmål er å bidra til økt verdiskaping og sysselsetting i distriktene. SIVA har delvis fått og delvis tatt på seg tre hovedoppgaver i arbeidet med å oppnå denne målsettingen....

This report uses data from the Community Innovation Survey to explore expenditures on innovation by European firms. It analyses the level and structure of three types of innovation investment across European industry: R&D, non-R&D expenditures (such as design activities), and capital investments...

This paper is a wide-ranging overview of issues related to the economic impacts of ICT. It discusses the broad issues of theory and method involved in thinking about a new radical technology, such as ICT, in economic change. However this discussion is extended in several directions – into a...

There is general agreement that SMEs face problems in innovation which justify public intervention, and this has led to a wide range of SME-oriented actions, both in Norway and other countries. The result has been a complex mix of programmes and policy instruments, so complex in fact that it is...

This report uses data from the Eurostat/DG-XIII Community Innovation Survey (CIS) to analyse innovation activity and innovation performance in the Pulp, Paper and Paper Products Industry in Europe. Analyses of innovation, and policy discussions of innovation, are often focused on high-R&D...

Recent years have seen fundamental changes in the ways we conceptualise innovation processes. The purpose of this paper is to explore one such reassessment, namely 'systems' approaches to innovation: the objective is to discuss the basis and policy implications of the approach, and then the...