Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labour in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to … leading centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical "first world" activity …. There is, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture. In this, broader …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labour in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to … leading centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical “first world” activity …. There is, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture. In this, broader …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …

We review the literature on national innovation systems. We first focus on the emergence of the concept of innovation …). After this, we discuss how the notion of innovation systems filled a need for providing a broader basis for innovation … policy. We conclude with some perspectives on the future of the innovation systems literature. …

Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labor in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to leading … centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical “first world” activity. There is …, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture. In this broader perspective …