INTRODUCTION This paper addresses two kinds of difficulty embedded in innovation data and innovation thinking. First, 'sector' is a deeply entrenched and familiar mapping principle. The dominant industrial classifications, which frame a large part of the data collection activity that supports policy making, are sectoral. However, there are difficulties associated with 'sector' as a basic framin...

Research in the domain of ‘Innovation Studies’ has been claimed to allow for the study of how technology will develop in the future. Some suggest that the National and Sectoral Innovation Systems literature has become bogged down, however, into case studies of how specific institutions affect innovation in a specific country. A useful notion for policy makers in particular, Balzat & Hanusch (20...

The objective of this study is to explore how extant studies on innovation have contributed the distribution knowledge required for improving national system (NIS) in Korea. Korea was chosen as context because it one leading countries that has succeeded establishing an NIS. Using a systematic review method, we selected 739 articles published two representative journals Korea, and analyzed criti...

This study links the highly distinctive national contexts of the pharmaceutical industry to the evolution of innovative capabilities for Japanese drug firms from 1975 to 1995. During these two decades, the Japanese domestic environment for pharmaceuticals changed radically, encouraging a “bubble” of trivial innovations. Experience by Japanese firms in their domestic market predominantly determi...

Article history: Received 10 February 2012 Received in revised form 26 October 2012 Accepted 27 October 2012 Available online 26 November 2012 “Open” practices have been at the forefront of research, business and political agendas for some time. Traditionally, research has focused on analysing critical factors for the deployment of Open Source (OS) Software and has highlighted the roles of “Col...

This paper explores the triangle of relationships among product, process and organizational innovation, examining the complementarities and substitutes between these forms of innovation. Drawing from a large pooled sample of French and UK manufacturing firms, it investigates if firms can find a beneficial interplay between forms of innovation. A first analysis through a trivariate probit and a ...

R&D activities are often considered as being a main driver of economic development, innovation and growth. They comprise creative work undertaken systematically with a view to increasing the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications (Eurostat, 2008: 30). Today innovation performance is a crucial determi...

Innovation has become a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is increasingly taking a lead in enterprise management in terms of sustained profitability. Foci of researchers and practitioners are revolving around innovation methods, processes, and strategies. This chapter seeks to f...