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The inclusion of innovation as a policy objective in public procurement has increased significantly at public organizations over the last years. However, public organizations often struggle with how they should stimulate innovation through public procurement as there are many different ways possible and knowledge on the efficiency and effectiveness of different methods is relatively scarce and mostly...
For the last two decades economists and researchers are turning to the study of technology policies and strategies to speed up the development innovation activities. The most common object of study is the national innovation system and its components. Building an effective national innovation system is an important factor to enhance the competitiveness of the economy, but it is impossible without...
The role of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Croatian economy is comparatively smaller than in the developed European Union (EU) countries. In this paper we analyze some of the factors which contribute to such a situation, and provide some policy proposals which could address it. The proposals have been based on the analysis of current trends related to innovation activities...
The evaluation of regional innovation system is the important premise to enhance innovation capability, and it's necessary to build a reasonable and scientifically evaluation index system for evaluating a regions' economic development. According to the index system, the statistic data of 2008 and factor analysis method are applied in this paper to evaluate the innovation capability of Heilongjiang...
The objective of this paper is to propose an analysis framework based on the System of Systems approach to overcome existing methodological problems in System of Innovation studies. The concept of System of Innovation has been an important focus of innovation policy studies over the last decade. These studies have concentrated on structuring theoretical frameworks to assess the determinants of innovation...
Innovation is the motive power of a region or an industry. At the background of knowledge-based economy and network era, the needs and behaviors of tourists have undergone great changes. This has imposed new requirements to the development of tourism. Shandong travel has made great achievements, but also faces severe challenges. In order to maintain a strong competitive power, Shandong Province must...
This paper construct the model of the small and medium-sized enterprises independent innovation system. Through empirical analysis on the SMEs innovation system of the Jilin Province, we found there are some phenomenon in the process of the creation and development of SME's innovation systems such as not obvious motivation, indifference innovative culture, insufficient innovation investment and imperfect...
The digital home electronics industry has emerged as a result of development of telecommunication, home entertainment, and remote control technology during the past decade. Most leading countries in the information technology (IT) industries (i.e. South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) intended to develop the digital home electronics industry as the next dominant industry for sustain the growth of nations' wealth...
A sound innovation policy is key for Dutch policy makers since its national innovativeness is decreasing according to several international studies. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 Dutch innovation-experts several findings were identified that explain the decreased Dutch innovativeness: e.g., a low level of knowledge absorptive capacity by Dutch companies and a preference of Dutch managers for...
In the first part of the article we deal with the main concepts relating to the innovation systems and we further illustrate some remarkable systems of innovation on account of its efficacy given the definition of strategies and supporting areas allowing for the shaping of several policy aspects. Finally, we set forth a series of guidelines on good policy practices and elements that must be taken...
Innovation is one of the most important fields in research and development of new services knowledge today, making innovation policy and Innovation research performance is an important issue. This study evaluates the main industry country innovation policy and innovation research performance of the past sixteen years. Data are based on the online version of SSCI, Web of Science from 1993 to 2008....
This paper considers the mean of technology foresight, and it discusses methods and different technology issues. The paper surveys movement from science and technology policy towards innovation policy. Furthermore, this article argues a number of barriers to Innovation in Iran.
During the recent years there has been a strong move from science and technology policy towards innovation policy. This has meant that new actors have been involved in S&T policy discussion. There are many profits from technology foresight in adding together to the knowledge and consensus they generate. The knowledge economy raise significant role of understanding and managing knowledge base assets...
Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) have been widely used in recent years to study open innovation (OI) activities, which have become a hot issue. While most research has aimed for a general overview of the OI activities in a specific country, this study, which pertains to OI activities in Taiwan, focuses on outstandingly innovative firms to benchmark and examine country-specific industrial characteristics,...
The effectiveness of an “Innovation Cluster” approach is well acknowledged in the science and technology policy. There are many successful cases that the innovation clusters are leading the national or regional competitiveness. However, it is also true that there are many cases, which do not produce the expected innovation. In this sense, a regional case of Korea was reviewed with other two international...
At the Lisbon Summit in 2000, the European Union (EU) Heads of States confirmed that knowledge and innovation are vital to Europe's growth and agreed to make the EU the most competitive knowledge-driven economy. The EU's ability to facilitate innovation by strengthening its research capacities is central to achieving this goal. Some of the practical initiatives under this innovation policy determined...
The main problems faced by local government are how to take full advantage of the national preferential policy of technology innovation an d how to improve innovation ability. The influencing factors of national innovation policy implementation based on enterprise were analyzed by questionnaire technique. The questionnaire chose 800 enterprises from Hebei province as investigation objects. The countermeasures...
Recent efforts to characterize the interactions among climate change and national security issues raise challenges of relating disparate bodies of scientific (both physical and social) knowledge as well as determining the role of innovation in meeting these challenges. Technological innovation has been called for to combat climate change, increase food production, and discover new ways of generating...
Do first-mover advantages exist for public policy? The theory of the first-mover advantage has been well studied in organization theory and marketing science. It is generally accepted that first-mover firms have multiple benefits such as technological leadership, asset preemption, and heightened buyer switching costs. First-mover firms also have the disadvantages of free-ridership, technology uncertainty...
The paper provides a general overview of the Polish environment for a new venture. Some of the specific questions answered in this paper include: What are the specific factors of the Polish technology environment? How do technology firms emerge from the R&D institutes and universities? The final section of the paper presents an analysis of the pilot research data concerning businesses, scientists...
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