in those sectors innovation may often not be the best strategic choice for market entry. In high-tech industries the … boundaries between the innovation and imitation are often blurred. Hence, following the pioneer does not eliminate risk of market …

-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor market institutions – affect the group-innovation relationship. The empirical …, GAFs are more innovative than SAFs: we estimate the innovation propensity of GAFs to be 9% higher than that of SAFs …

generates very poor gross domestic products. To reverse this trend, African countries must build innovation-based economies …

Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy … interventions. This situation has led to the developing of new frameworks for the innovation system led by National Science and … Technology Policy Centres across the globe. These new models of innovation are variously referred to as the National Innovation …

innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …

This paper studies the interlinks between innovation inputs and outputs and between innovation outputs and economic … development. Using a panel data-set from 31 regions of China, we show that the difference in regional innovation output can be …

innovation in developing countries, very few contributions concern the analysis of the obstacles impeding or slowing the process … of innovation and factors affecting their perceptions. But, the innovation behaviour of firms can be affected by their … assessment of barriers and difficulties encountered in the innovation process. This work is dedicated to the analysis of the …

questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …

, innovation. Endogenous growth theory has long suggested that human capital lead to greater innovation and, through technology … innovation and diffusion, contribute to economic growth. However, there is little evidence on the role of human capital in … innovation. Using the Chinese provincial data from 1997 to 2006, we show that workers’ tertiary education is significantly and …