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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Innovation systems"”.
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Dynamics and architectures of innovation systems
Innovation processes are multifaceted. Different studies usually focus on different facets of innovations without being integrated into a complete innovation system. In this thesis, system dynamics and system architecture approaches are adopted to integrate different studies in innovations and to …
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Social innovation systems for building resilient communities
A global investigation into social innovation systems for building resilient communities, this doctoral thesis introduces a hypothesis that social innovation in the built environment occurs over phases of network, framework and architecture. The literature review links social innovation to …
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Emerging innovation systems in the Baltic States
… the dissemination of internationally competitive innovations in the form of international patents coming from the three countries are put in context with an analysis of the institutional base of innovative activity in order to gain an overview of the structure and the patterns of developing …
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INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING IN ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN INNOVATION SYSTEMS APPROACH
… growth and social progress. The concept of systems of innovation, with its roots in the evolutionary economic theory and the focus on the dynamics of technology and institutions provides a good alternative solution. However, given that the concept is relatively new and the research subjects …
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Web Manifestations of Knowledge-Based Innovation Systems in the UK
Innovation is widely recognised as essential to the modern economy. The term knowledgebased innovation system has been used to refer to innovation systems which recognise the importance of an economy’s knowledge base and the efficient interactions between important actors from the different sectors …
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Evaluating Nuclear Energy as a Component of U.S. Energy Innovation Systems
… its role in the current U.S. clean energy innovation system. OECD nations, on average, have begun to reduce their dependence on nuclear energy. However, the United States has remained invested in its nuclear energy infrastructure and the role that it plays within federal research and …
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Improving the Innovation Performance of Ireland’s Dairy Industry: An Innovation Systems Approach
This thesis provides new insight into innovation in Ireland’s dairy industry. The thesis measures the innovation performance of dairy products on global markets and uses the framework of innovation systems to explore why and how innovation brokers are established as an essential part of the …
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THE LIMITS OF THE NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS MODEL: THE CASE OF TURKEY
… in the last two decades put the National Innovation Systems (NIS) approach to the agenda of developing countries. However, a proper consideration should be placed on the external and internal factors that affect the any given country?s capacity in adapting the proposed innovation policies. …
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The core and the periphery in distributed and self-organizing innovation systems
… of such self-organizing and distributed innovation systems. I focus on the differing roles of core and peripheral participants in the distributed innovation process and explore the potential generality of this new form of innovating. The first study explores a systematic method of …
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Entrepreneurship and Institutions in Innovation systems research: Evidence from the Nigerian film industry
As the innovation systems approach becomes increasingly transferred from developed to developing countries as a framework for achieving increased productivity, the notion of deficient institutions becomes more important. Prior research on innovation systems has adopted a broad treatment of …
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A Decision-Support Framework for Guiding Local Medical Device Innovation: An Innovation Systems perspective
Innovation within the South African medical device sector is impeded by systemic barriers that prevent a significant proportion of locally developed technologies from reaching the market. This failure to translate promising innovations into commercial products represents a substantial loss of …
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Fashion Innovation System Policy: Probing regional innovation systems to optimise digital manufacturing for fashion designers
… model, a novel approach to Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) has emerged, acknowledging the diverse traits of regions and sectors, thereby giving rise to RIS pathway approaches. In mature industries, particularly the fashion sector, innovation resistance poses a significant challenge …
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Knowledge Networks in Emerging ICT Regional Innovation Systems: An Explorative Study of the Knowledge Network of Trentino ICT Innovation System
Although the last thirty years Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) received great attention by policy makers, only during the last decade social networks were applied in the fields of innovation and regional economics. The majority of the existing empirical studies on networks adopt a static point of …
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A stakeholder-grounded evaluation of the seven functions model of technological innovation systems theory in UK offshore wind and marine renewables.
Technological innovation systems theory (TIS) provides a useful framework within which to consider energy transitions. The "seven functions" framework allows researchers to examine the progress of emergence of new technologies, but has not hitherto been tested for completeness and validity with …
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Opening the 'black box' of regional industrial-innovation systems: Navigating the intermediate innovation capability requirements from regional knowledge creation into industrial value capture
Interest in developing regional industrial and innovation policies has steadily increased in the UK and internationally in the last decade. This thesis aims to improve understanding of the theoretical and practical challenges of the translation of regional investments in innovation into successful …
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The local innovation system of the oil and gas industry in the North Sea : the application of patent data in the study of innovation systems
… similarities and differences between the local innovation systems in the two regions, we can gain a general understanding of how local economies respond to changes in their environment. U.S. patenting data are used as a tool to describe the behavior and performance of the two local innovation …
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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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Positioning Chinese practices in global innovation studies: A literature review on system of innovation research
… offers a systematic review of the system of innovation (SI) literature, to bridge between Chinese innovation practice and global studies on innovation systems. It is developed from the standpoint of how to understand and evaluate innovation systems in China based on current wisdom. First, the …
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Analysis of Estonian startups in an international context
… development where economic growth is rooted in innovation, the question of assessing the quality and development of national innovation systems becomes increasingly more important. In this thesis, the author analyzes the startup ecosystem of a small Northern European country, Estonia. Firstly, a …
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Micro-Enterprise innovation in Zimbabwe's Knowledge Economy: Navigating the contextual barriers to achieve business viability
… to adopt unconventional strategies infused with innovation fuelling their enterprising efforts to achieve viability. The nature of the environment drives micro-enterprises to come together, forming business hubs in formal and informal structures relying on business theories to enable them to …
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