The R&D Spillovers, Innovation and Knowledge-based Economy

Knowledge management : Innovation in the Knowledge Economy

OECD's books, periodicals and statistical databases are now available via www.SourceOECD.org, our online library. Ask your librarian for more details of how to access OECD books on line, or write to us at [email protected] Today's " knowledge economies " are seeing the emergence of new paradigms for innovation and the advancement of knowledge in relation to economic activities. This report ex...

Externalities, Knowledge Spillovers and the Spatial Distribution of Innovation

The aim of the paper is to investigate the process of spatial agglomeration of innovation and production activities and to assess the extent to which the degree of specialisation or diversity externalities in the area may affect the innovative output in a particular local industry. The analysis is carried out thanks to an original databank on innovation and production activity across 85 industr...

The National Innovation Ecosystem: a vehicle toward knowledge-based economy

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are in the transition toward a new, knowledge-based economy. As these states diversify from a petroleum-based economy to knowledge-based industries, the countries’ competitiveness and performance increasingly will depend on their abilities to foster an indigenous capacity for technological innovation. This paper presents a broad framework for a national...

Innovation, regional knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation

We investigate the impact of knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation on innovation activities in three German regions. We begin by estimating the knowledge-production function in order to test for interregional difference with regard to the efficiency of innovation activities. In a second step, we analyze the contribution of spillovers from R&D effort of other private firms and of public resea...

The Knowledge Economy And The Knowledge Assessment Methodology