There is a popular impression that governments are resistant to change and innovation, and that this is due to a …-making processes may aid innovation rather than inhibiting it, and the assumption that governments are excessively risk-averse assumes …. This paper brings together ideas from public administration, behavioural psychology and economics to ask whether the anti-innovation …

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …

Longitudinal, disease-level data are used to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity (mean age at … pharmaceutical innovation increased mean age at death by 0.87 years (10.4 months)-—about 44% of the total increase in longevity … pharmaceutical innovation. The baseline estimate of the cost per life-year gained from pharmaceutical innovation in Greece is $17 …

centred on the provision of assistance to Member States who joined in 2004, 2007 and 2013 in using innovation funding under … ESIFs via the early and effective implementation of RIS3 with the aim of closing the innovation gap and promote scientific …

Observation that regional factors could influence innovative capacity of firms caused interest growth of innovation … variables corre-spond with the variables proposed in Regional Innovation Scoreboard. The first part of the paper contains a … innovation indexes. The last step was the com-parison of regions based on INPUT and OUTPUT indexes. The results show that there …

This paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and innovation according to firms’ age by … combining insights from the recent strand of contributions analysing CG and innovation with the lifecycle literature. We find a … negative relationship between CG and innovation which is stronger for young firms than for mature ones. The empirical analysis …

Comparative studies indicate that innovation activity in Poland is, in general, significantly below that of EU and in …. It is the heritage of past times, where creation of the innovation system wasn’t con-sidered a priority factor of … all the non-price competition. That is why it seems that creating conditions for innovation system might become a crucial …

The aim of this paper is to examine regional differences in innovation activities of Polish enterprises in 2004-2010 on … the basis of statistical data published by the CSO. The survey covered such issues as: expenditures on innovation … activities (level and structure), the share of innovation-active enterprises, the types of innovations, as well as the objectives …