investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

persist. Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and …

The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with … patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in narrow technological fields, such as many environment …

Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy … concludes that policy measures to stimulate corporate R&D and innovation activities should be expressly conceived according to …

innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … to the adoption of alternative measures of innovation performance (Intangible Assets). It certainly merits further …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by …