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

have influenced the direction of innovation over the last four decades. Our findings suggest that the demography of …

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical … of these issues the concept of a regional innovation system is presented in some detail and an overview of results from … recent research on regional innovation systems is given. The paper then discusses basic policy options and names a number of …

We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …

recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …

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 …