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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Innovation policy"”.
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Knowledge networks and innovation policy
… products and services. This is achieved through innovation. Innovation is a highly knowledge intensive activity, which requires combining different types of knowledge. Firms require many types of specialized knowledge that they cannot produce themselves. Moreover, knowledge often has a tacit …
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Brass cities : Innovation policy and local economic transformation
… state government in the U.S. began investing in innovation policies aimed at diversifying local economies and stimulating the growth of high-technology industries. Three political obstacles short-term electoral incentives, industry capture, and barriers to collective action - have made the …
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The European Community and innovation policy : reorienting towards diffusion
… support mechanisms in European Community (EC) innovation policy. With the shift from the traditional linear model towards an integrative approach to innovation, the role of diffusion of technologies and knowledge, achieved greater weight. This shift in both the thinking of academic experts, and …
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Patents over planning : industrial capital and federal innovation policy
… R&D programs as a high tech-oriented industrial policy through which the US government actively targets certain economic sectors over others for state support. Analysts have emphasized one dominant institutional feature of this system: federal R&D programs lack a central planning mechanism, and …
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Scientizing Science Policy: Implications for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy and R&D Evaluation
… the logic and history behind science of science policy approaches and to substitute for this scientific evidence-based science policy model an evidence-critical and -informed model in which scientific and democratic claims are promoted simultaneously. Science of science policy, or what I call the …
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Innovation policy in Canada’s agri-food system: The functional food and natural health products’ segment
Public policy regarding innovation in the Canadian value-added agri-food sector does not appear to meet its intended outcomes. Rather than being a commodity producing nation, Canada has attempted to focus its attention on adding value to products that increase economic returns. Innovation capacity …
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An analysis of innovation programmes in Wales along a ‘hard – soft’ policy continuum : a case study approach
The thesis context is a Welsh innovation policy continuum. The research is primarily located in three innovation programmes representative of innovation policy in Wales. The representative programmes are: the Technium network; Innovation Network Partnership; and Communities First project. The …
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How intermediaries build social capital for transformative social innovation
Researchers have called for innovation policy that focuses on addressing social needs. This involves an inclusive and experimental process where solutions to complex problems need to be developed “on the ground” with local stakeholders. There is an urgent need for such transformative innovative …
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Tributação e inovação na indústria de petróleo e gás natural do Brasil: uma caracterização do processo de P&D e avaliação setorial da política nacional de incentivos
… to assess the main impacts of the national innovation policy, including fiscal incentives and other legal mechanisms, on the amount of R&D investments by the sector in recent years. From this perspective, a measure of R&D cost sensitivity and an assessment of fiscal incentives generosity for …
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On the Evolution of the National Design System: The Catch-up Perspective
… as an intangible asset has been neglected by innovation policy makers in middle-income countries. Managers and policy makers thus need to depart from the traditional wisdom that product function is the main driver of product innovation and also to recognize product form as one of most …
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Product Variety, Innovation and Growth
… on the different mechanisms that facilitate innovation and their relative importance in driving growth. Innovation is an important engine for economic growth and considerable effort has been devoted in understanding how technical change drives aggregate growth. Most literature in the field …
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On the governance of regional innovation systems. Case studies from four city-regions within the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia: Aachen, Dortmund, Duisburg and Düsseldorf
… the governance of so-called regional innovation systems. It studies regional and sub-regional dynamics in building institutional environments conducive to innovation. The research employs a qualitative research methodology that comprises semi-structured interviews with 47 …
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A neo-Schumpeterian study of the developmental techno-politics of post-socialist Bulgaria and Kazakhstan
The thesis investigates the policy articulation of transformative development pathways from low value-added or resource-dependent economies to ones which are high value-added, knowledge-intensive, and catalysed by innovation in response to global techno-economic trends. Recognising the seminal role …
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Trajectories of Innovation: Measurements, Models & Interventions
Investment in innovation is a crucial determinant of economic development. However, the innovation policy community lacks a robust empirical framework to describe the long-term emergence of technologies. At present, technological progress is often measured quantitatively as the first derivative of …
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Game theoretic models of inter-firm R&D dynamics in semiconductor manufacturing
… technology and business strategy scholars, and innovation policy makers should find the work of interest.
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From innovators perspective : process of grassroots innovation in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
… there has been a growing interest in grassroots innovation in India and beyond, both as an area of formal research and practice. Although many different explanations of grassroots innovations exist in literature, they can be understood as novel products and processes that solve an unmet need or …
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The political economy of the research exemption in American patent law
One of the most important questions in innovation policy today is whether the acts of making and using a patented invention for research purposes should be exempt from infringement liability, also known as the research exemption. Most of the legal scholarship about the research exemption has …
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Curriculum innovation through teacher certification: Evaluation of a government intervention and its effects on teacher development and English language pedagogy in South Korea
… a case study method. The data collected include policy documents and practical documents generated during the certification procedure; interviews with eighteen different stakeholders including the policy makers, teacher assessors, teacher trainers, and English language teachers; and observation …
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The localist turn in EU Regional Policy viewed from a Tuscan Perspective
… has been dedicated so far to main economic policy of the European Union: the Regional Policy. The present work critically investigates the rationales and the intervention tools which shape the EU’s flagship policy, with a view to shedding light on the transformations which have lately …
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