Innovation serves many purposes. In this paper we study new varieties of innovation and innovation policy which address … terms of multiplicities of innovation, governance and societal challenges. They serve as living labs and lead-markets for … solutions to societal challenges. The identified and analysed cases of social innovation initiatives in these metropolitan areas …

This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of innovation and how they are presented for use in …, which raises questions about the definition of innovation. This is followed by a review of plans for the evolution of … innovation indicators and their use over the next few years. These plans, national and international, are diverse and this leads …

, Research and Development, Financial Constraints, Innovation Policy …

and industrial structure, the paper applies a framework for innovation system dynamics that investigates in detail the … introduction of scope clauses that created a niche for the 50-seat market. Bombardiers radical innovation, the business-jet based …

This study investigates the impact of innovation support programmes on SME innovation in traditional manufacturing … industries in seven EU regions. Recent literature identifying sources of potential government failure in innovation policy … suggests that the effects of public support measures to increase private innovation may be disappointing. Our results are …

This paper revisits the competition-innovation relationship using an unbalanced panel of enterprise data stemming from … four waves of the Luxembourgish innovation survey for the period 2002-2010. We estimate by full-information maximum … competition and three indicators of innovation and find that firms whose main market is characterised by rapid obsolescence of …

Innovation support measures in the EU are mostly designed to support product innovation in RD intensive sectors. To … industries a broader innovation policy mix is more appropriate. This paper draws data from a survey of more than 300 SMEs from … seven regions within the European Union, as well as case studies, to address the question How can innovation policy …

innovation and productivity of Uruguayan services firms vis a vis manufacturing. Results show that ICT investments are more … innovation investments are positively associated with productivity in services but only ICT affect productivity in manufacturing …