and prosperity. However, the innovation headline indicators are ambitiously defined targets of the Europe-2020 strategy …. The paper at hand analyses and highlights the innovation and creative capability within the Europe 2020 strategy framework. …

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

cognitive skills as a driver of innovation and diffusion. Although there is substantial diversity, the new human capital index …

accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation … innovation system development in the context of small catching-up economies. Smallness, path dependency, and latecomer status of … such economies create some inherent limitations for their innovation systems, but these special characteristics can offer …

accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation … innovation system development in the context of small catching-up economies. Smallness, path dependency, and latecomer status of … such economies create some inherent limitations for their innovation systems, but these special characteristic …