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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...
The main assumption of the paper is that cooperation for innovation is a knowledge exchange process, driven by people. It stresses the importance of knowing who knows what -and does what- in the firms. The cooperative behavior of firms in innovative activities is analyzed from several data sources and using such data in different ways. The results obtained show unmistakably that ??scientifically and...
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...
Many governments are trying to enhance national technological competitiveness by developing a kind of innovation cluster. Science park, technology park, or Innopolis - regardless of the name - are the kind of the innovation cluster. It is known that there are many success factors of innovation cluster such as location, availability of high quality manpower, good living environment, good universities...
A sound innovation policy to improve national competitiveness is key for today's policy makers. The Netherlands wants to be in the top 5 of most competitive economies worldwide by being more innovative. However, its innovativeness is not increasing according to several international studies. 15 acclaimed Dutch innovation-experts identify 7 reasons that explain the lack of innovativeness, e.g. low...
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...
Besides the presentation and introduction, this paper includes three main sections. The first discusses the relevance of innovation indicators for policymaking, and it gives strong evidences of how it is being poorly used. The second section analyses the reasons for this almost lack of use of innovation indicators, and the last section presents ways to improve the usefulness of innovation surveys...
Multiple levels of government currently design and implement research and innovation programs both in the US and in Europe. Empirical analysis of interdependencies among programs has not been fully explored, however. Our contribution is a first step in understanding potential complementarities across R&D programs. Using a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms, we study the determinants of firms'...
Due to the increased internationalization of corporate R&D, foreign-controlled multinational enterprises are now seen by most governments as a central actor in national innovation systems and as a catalyst for upgrading in global value chains. This paper describes the key policy instruments used by governments in their efforts to attract internationally-mobile R&D and discusses some implementation...
This extended abstract of a conference paper looks at the economic development in Central and Eastern Europe since the early 1990s. We argue against the common wisdom that that 1990s proved to be a 'lost decade' for most of the countries in the region rather than a period of successful catching up.
In the last decades, innovation has become a very significant strategy for the competitiveness. Some governments have implemented public policies oriented to science, technology and innovation to stimulate the technical development in industrial sectors and strengthen their national innovation systems. The main objective of analyzing the economic and industrial performance of Mexico, Spain, Chile...
Mexican innovative firms have to operate in a rather adverse environment because innovation policy offers little support. For that reason, studying firm's innovation strategies is very important to shed light on how small firms can innovate and participate in global markets of high technology products even in a weak policy environment. This paper presents a case study of Instituto Bioclon, a Mexican...
The following topics were dealt with: technology management; business strategy; innovation policy & management; organizational culture; managing IT & e-commerce; R&D and risk management; project management; and knowledge management
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