and advice, which helps them to know better the products and services or support businesses in innovation process. This …

The rationale and policy proposed by two collaborating projects is to increase innovation through improved connectivity … enhanced product or service innovation." We test this hypothesis by referring to the EIM Business and Policy Research [EIM … probit analysis to identify a strong link between connectivity factors and increased product or service innovation. We also …

innovation activities. The results show that while there are no differences between WMF and CF in the realization of … technological innovation activities (involving R&D), differences in favor of WMF appear in the practice of organizational innovation …

innovation in developing economies. The results of simultaneous-equations analysis reveal that there exist reciprocal … relationships between the two; however, in opposing directions. While increasing innovation attracts more foreign direct investment …, more inward FDI reduces innovation. Indigenous innovation is increased mainly through improvements in absorptive capacity …

the software piracy problem is harmful to innovation in developed countries, it could benefit innovation in emerging … engineering graduates in the emerging economies. This could explain why innovation in these countries has not suffered much from …

(equity and debt), innovation in SMEs. A specific focus is devoted to the “SME Instrument”. In the third part, similarly, is … conceived to stimulate, respectively, research, innovation, and competitive techno-science and competitiveness of productive … examines Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation, identifying and describing its legal basis, architecture, budget …

I introduce patents into a general equilibrium model of innovation, where innovators choose between creating a new …

best among them - into a model of Schumpeterian innovation. Firms face uncertainty about the optimal direction of … innovation, so more innovations implies a higher expected value of the `best' innovation. The model accounts for two seemingly …-level productivity growth, and an inverted-U relationship between competition and firm-level innovation. Notwithstanding the positive …