This text discusses the approach adopted in a European research project concerning the relationships between science and industry. The analysis uses the notion of actors as vectors for the creation and diffusion of competences and knowledge throughout the innovation process. From this...

The paper introduces an agent-based simulation model to study the technological development and the economic performance of firms with potential knowledge spillover in a differentiated industry. The analysis is based on the interaction and behavior of firms, which might share knowledge but at...

An ongoing debate revolves around determining effects of public funds for research given the considerable complexity of the innovation process. While government intervention is usually not questioned per se, appraising the role of specific intervention types remains a lively debated issue in the...

Science-industry collaboration is one of the major channels for transferring new scientific ideas into economic applications. Whereas the factors leading to collaboration are reasonably well understood, the determinants of the outcomes generated by such collaboration are unknown. This paper...