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Competence Building: A Systemic Approach to Innovation Policy
Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
The main question that guides this paper is how governments are focusing (and must focus) on competence building (education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the gap between the existing literature on competences on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722776
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Institutions and Regulations in Innovation Systems: Effects, Problems and Innovation Policy Design
Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
Institutions (including regulations) are constitutive elements of innovation systems, and therefore cornerstones of innovation policy. Focusing on (soft and hard) regulation, the paper identifies the most salient regulatory areas from the perspective of the innovation system. When asking about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098758
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Why Pre-Commercial Procurement is notInnovation Procurement
Edquist, Charles; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012
In 2006 the European Commission introduced the concept of "Pre-Commercial Procurement" as an instrument to promote innovation and to mitigate grand challenges. One of the main motivations for the support of Pre-Commercial Procurement schemes was to use public needs as a driver for innovation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643166
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Innovation Policy for Knowledge Production and R&D: the Investment Portfolio Approach
Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
Who produces scientific and technical knowledge these days? What type of knowledge is being produced and for what purposes? Why are firms and governments funding research and development? This chapter studies the role of knowledge production (especially R&D activities) in the innovation process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945042
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Striving Towards a Holistic Innovation Policy in European Countries - But Linearity Still Prevails!
Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
The concept of a holistic innovation policy is defined in this article, with discussions of what it is, why it is relevant, and how it can be implemented to enhance product innovation. It is shown that the innovation systems approach has diffused rapidly during the latest decades and has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945050
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Efficiency of Research and Innovation Systems for Economic Growth and Employment
Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
The concept of a holistic innovation policy is defined in this paper, and it is discussed what it is, why it is relevant and how it can be implemented. One of the main conclusions is that the innovation policies in European countries are still linear (and not holistic), in spite of the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778810
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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257108
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257351
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Evaluating the Impact of Cluster Development Programs
Giuliani, Elisa; Maffioli, Alessandro; Pacheco, Manuel; … - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
Do the programs that aim to promote and develop industry clusters (also known as Cluster Development Programs, or CDP) work? Do they have an impact on enterprise development? This paper offers an insight into the methods that can help answer these fundamental questions through solid quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818680
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System Failures, Knowledge Bases and Regional Innovation Policies
Martin, Roman; Trippl, Michaela - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
Regional innovation strategies rank on the top of public policy agendas today. There is a widespread consensus in both academic and policy circles that standardised “best practice” innovation policy models suffer from severe limitations and major shortcomings. The recent literature is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643163