Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully...

This paper reports on a quantitative study of 1117 cases of transposition of directives in 5 member states and 8 policy sectors between 1978 and 2002. We find significant cross-sectoral performance differences, which complicate generalization from studies of only one sector. These differences...

The paper contradicts the thesis of Mancur Olson presented in `The Rise and Decline of Nations', using empirical evidence from studies on business interest associations and sectoral corporatism. We argue first that, unlike Olson assumes, selfish interest associations are not necessarily...