substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest …: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and … market failure is highest, that is, for radical innovation. Taking into account that the Swiss funding agency encourages …

This paper provides a new theoretical rationale for public procurement for innovation (PPI), a unique policy …

partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation …

The global innovation environment is undergoing major changes. Driven by its entrepreneurship policy, China …'s innovation level has gradually improved, but the regional gap remains large. As previous studies mainly focused on the net impact … of entrepreneurship policy on innovation, knowledge on the combination of entrepreneurship policies to improve regional …

As it becomes apparent that users are an important source in innovation in society and in individual organizations …, scholars are realizing that user-directed innovation policy might contribute to improving social welfare. How such policy might … makerspaces is a effective form of user-supporting innovation policy …

The innovation systems (IS) approach — developed by Richard Nelson, Christopher Freeman and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, amongst … others — has become perhaps the dominant approach in the academic literature for the study of innovation. It has also exerted …

academics alike. Learning and innovation play important roles and more critical is the mediating factors and how it impacts the … learning and innovation in youth-owned small businesses in Lagos, Nigeria, from a cross-sectional perspective. Design …/methodology/approach - Leveraging the sectoral system of innovation theory, we use a primary research method and data obtained from a structured …

Inadequacy of technology is a child of structuralism; the concept of a national system of innovation (NSI) is a child …

Brazil's main challenge in innovation policy is to encourage the business sector to engage in productivity … institutions. Innovation policy is beginning to focus on the potential synergies among science and technology promotion, R …&D support and trade competitiveness. To be successful in boosting business innovation, these policies will need to be …

This article analyzes, empirically, the link between public procurement and innovation activities by taking into … applications for 24 countries over the period 1995-2012, we test the impact of public procurement on innovation activities and … patenting is positively affected by the public procurement while a high degree of import penetration reduces the innovation …