play a signicant role in terms of any further reforms of the PRC's national innovation system, which in turn could spur … continued growth. It highlights how issues such as innovation, research and development, and strategic clustering in influence …

pharmaceutical industry has been investigated. The focus has been on the 1960s when the institutional conditions for innovation …

, thus pointing out to other factors explaining the geography of innovation in that particular industry. …

This study explores the possibility of using trademark statistics as an indicator of new-to-the-firm innovation. It … indicator of new-to-the-firm innovation is likely to be most successful in industries with frequent use of trademarks and with …

Using contests to generate innovation has and is widely used. Such contests often involve offering a prize that depends … inducing innovation. In a symmetric environment, we find that the reward should be set to c(x)/c′(x) where c is the cost of … producing an innovation of level x. In an asymmetric environment with two firms, we find that it is optimal to set different …

The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …

France sur les dispositifs publics d’incitation à la création de réseaux d’innovation. What is the place and the role played … innovation networks. …