Innovation is at the heart of economic development, but nevertheless raises nsiderable theoretical challenges in the fields of both Economics and Management. In this ticle, we will be examining recent work on innovation in these two disciplines, which leads to introduce a crucial function for innovation that we have called the "design function" herent to firms. This function cannot be formally ...

Measuring innovation activities involves critical decisions in selecting appropriate indicators and levels of observation. The present article contributes to the literature on this subject by addressing innovation measurement on the regional level. The dimensionality of regional innovation is examined by applying a principal component analysis on seven innovation output indicators in European r...

Working Papers are produced in order to bring the results of research in progress to a wider audience and to facilitate discussion. They will normally be published in a revised form subsequently and the agreement of the authors should be obtained before referring to its contents in other published works. Abstract In this paper we explore the factors which determine the profile of innovation by ...

The patent system has been seen as a critical factor driving innovation in clinical medicine, particularly in medical devices and diagnostic assays. The licence terms and business model proposed by Myriad Genetics Inc. for testing the hereditary breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 could stifle innovation (particularly if other companies adopt similar business models), and are lik...

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines organized its first Neglected Diseases and Innovation Symposium to address expanding roles of public sector research institutions in innovation in research and development of biomedical technologies for treatment of diseases, particularly neglected tropical diseases. Universities and other public research institutions are increasingly integrated into ...

This paper is to elaborate and develop an alternative framework for the study of technological innovation systems. Compared with conventional literature, this analytical framework is designed for entrepreneurs, i.e. actors, at the micro level rather than policy makers at the meso or macro level. The socalled entrepreneurial innovation system is conceptually refined by synthesizing knowledge reg...

Innovation is an important source of competitiveness and is studied extensively by both the academicians and the practitioners particularly in the last decades. This study is based on the results of an exploratory study conducted in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey covering 184 manufacturing firms. A model is developed to determine the determinants of innovativeness and data is gathered th...

In his latest book, The Persistence of Innovation in Government, Professor Sandford Borins continues twenty-five years of research analysing winners of, and applicants to, the Innovations in American Government Awards program run by the Ash Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). ‘Within the public sector, innovation awards programmes, most notably, ...

In recent years the proliferation of a new technological evolution has aroused great interest from science and practice: social media. Subsuming different types of online applications where users can create, edit and share content, social media enables new forms of interaction with others. Organisations already recognise its relevance and start leveraging on it. Furthermore, organisations ident...

Adopting a case study approach, this review of the public sector innovation literature examines workforce management innovations developed and implemented by state-level, transportation agencies across the U.S. to improve their operations. These innovations targeted the following workforce challenges which agencies besides those dedicated to transportation service provision at national, regiona...