In the last decade Irish innovation policy has been focused on Higher Education Institutions
(HEIs). This paper explores the effects of HEIs, in the context of interaction with other …

This report seeks to develop a broad conceptual and empirical framework against which
innovation policy issues in New Zealand can be assessed and evaluated. The report …

This paper presents new survey-based evidence on the increasingly topical question of
what drives innovation in Irish high-technology businesses. The extraordinary performance …

Over the last two decades there has been a growing realisation that the long run economic
performance of nations, firms and industries is dependent on their ability to exploit …

It is increasingly recognized that the production of new products and the development and
diffusion of new production and organizational techniques are central to the competitiveness …

This paper (which is preliminary and reports work in progress) draws on the UK's version of
the 3rd European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-3) to investigate the contribution of the …

Chapter 1: Introduction have grown to more than two or three hundred employees.
Companies developing successful products are all too frequently sold to foreign …

An innovation-driven policy agenda has emerged in Ireland against a backdrop of
remarkable economic growth and convergence. Policy makers now recognise that …

In this Briefing Note, we present new evidence on the UK's innovative performance and
provide a summary of government business support programmes aimed at fostering …

Innovation is central to ensuring economic growth and improvements in social welfare. The
pressures for economies to innovate have increased in response to global changes in the …