spurring innovation (Section 5). The third group focuses on the financing of innovation (Section 6). Section 7 concludes. …

across the non-financial sector, in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in infrastructure, and in R&D and innovation …

Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms … with good prospects for innovation. Aggregate productivity growth requires that firms with the best prospects for …

processes of innovation and diffusion of a general purpose technology (GPT) take place. There is also an analysis of the …

to provide theoretical and empirical perspectives on innovation which give a greater role to the demand-side aspect of … innovation. The main question is how can policy make enterprises more willing to innovate? This task is fulfilled by identifying … what we consider the central or most salient aspect of a demand-side innovation- driven economy, which is the small and …

Innovation is considered to be an important determinant of performance at the firm, industry and country level. This … domestic innovation is of little importance for most countries. Such countries can benefit from innovation conducted elsewhere … however, if knowledge and technology is diffused across borders. In this paper we survey existing literature on innovation and …

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. …