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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...
This paper explores the potential application of blueprinting, a public service innovation tool, to the design and implementation of innovation policy. Firstly, we briefly summarize some problems often encountered in existing innovation policy processes, especially in less developed countries. Studies suggest that oversimplification and incompleteness of specification of implementation are common...
This paper is about the new role of academic institutions in the economic development of developing countries. Educational institutes are significant in propelling economic development as they are the powerful drivers, technology centres, developers and investors. Universities can affect the economic growth of developing countries. The purpose of this new role of academic institutions is to touch...
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...
This paper aims to describe goals, implementation and preliminary results of a Finnish service innovation program: “Serve Innovative services”. Program is organized by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. Tekes is the national funding agency promoting technology and innovation driven development in Finland.
We collected innovation policies concerning Hangzhou. Then, we establish quantitative criteria in three aspects of policy efforts, policy objectives, and policy measures. We estimate the regression models regarding the effect of innovative city performance. The result indicates that, Hangzhou should enhance the policies executive function in the perspective of policy efforts, and select key links...
Multinational corporations seeking access to China's burgeoning consumer markets and human resources are establishing R&D centers in the country and developing ways to thread a path through its complex innovation policies.
New economic leaders of the future — emerging markets with significant growth potential, are attractive to the investment plan, and even during the crisis, their growth has not slowed. Despite the national characteristics of economic systems, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries are facing similar institutional and economic challenges: an active government regulation,...
China has challenged the dominance of advanced OECD countries in high technologies by emerging as a leading country in nanotechnology; projected as a key technology of the 21st century. Stakes are high as estimated market value and economic and social benefits are immense for countries that can attain competency in this technology. The study makes a broad assessment of nanotechnology performance of...
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.
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