Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment … achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the … strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation is …

enterprises (SMEs) seemingly successful R&D is a function of innovation processes and R&D networks. There is a perceived lack of … and to SME's is the development of collaborative environments and networks to increase their innovation capabilities as a …

<em>Innovation and performance in the long run: the case of Europe</em> - In this article we present the results of a … recent work on the long-term mechanisms of innovation and performance in Europe which contributes to the European innovation … scoreboard. Data from different waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) have been used as an instrument for understanding …

innovation activities (IA) made by Argentine firms. In particular, we use recent data collected by CEPAL to undertake micro … National System of Innovation, the trade regime and local market conditions. …

the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the … private-collective model, commons-based peer production, R&D networks and is therefore an innovation model in its own right …

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 …

This paper employs a new global panel data set on innovation related variables to examine patterns of R&D investment …