Innovation, knowledge transfer and territorial economical development: a pending politics

Territorial Agend Reform and Development and Innovation in Medical Education in Iran.

Background and Aim:. Regional territory of the health care system in the field of the country provides the opportunity to the participation in the programs of the Ministry of Health based on the advantages and talents of the region and enables the programs to be improved further. The purpose of this study is to explain the reform of territorial planning, transformation and innovation in higher ...

Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a New Politics of Innovation

We live in a time of unprecedented advance in science and technology, with global annual spending on research and development (R&D) now exceeding a trillion dollars. Yet development challenges have also grown. For many people and places, poverty is deepening, and the environment is in crisis. Thousands of children die daily from waterborne diseases, and more than a billion people go hungry. Mee...

Stream: Organisational Dynamics, Knowledge, Information and Innovation Translating new science into biomedical innovation: Power, politics and the integration of knowledge

There are an increasing number of breakthroughs in scientific knowledge that could drastically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of medical practice in terms of the delivery of new treatments and services. However innovation performance is actually declining in the biomedical domain. In this paper we consider why this may be the case by focusing on the problems of translating scientific ...

Knowledge spill-overs, innovation and regional development

25 th EGOS Colloquium , Barcelona 2009 TERRITORIAL INNOVATION DYNAMICS : A KNOWLEDGE BASED PERSPECTIVE

A great deal of studies has focused on the role played by geographical location on the emergence and the building of localised learning capacities (Maskell, Malmberg, 1999). In this perspective, empirical studies have demonstrated that innovation dynamics of clusters results from the quality of interactions and coordination inside the cluster as well as interactions with external, often global,...