Space information network includes multi-system integration that involves real-time acquisition, transmission, and processing over the information systems. Space information network is an important strategic direction of China’s 13th Five-Year Plan for the innovation of science and technology, which is also considered to be the current focus area of national development. Efficient carrying and ...

Much work in electronic government (eGovernment) research was done on innovations from a single-organisational managerial perspective, while little was investigated into sectoral innovation and diffusion processes in public sector organisations. Here, a political science perspective appreciates the embeddedness of public sector innovation and diffusion processes in the surrounding politico-admi...

This paper presents the results from a multivariate (factor and cluster) analysis of the variation in innovation processes of manufacturing and service firms. Using data from the third Community Innovation Survey for Flanders (Belgium), a set of seven clusters of firms that are to be interpreted as ‘innovation patterns’ or ‘innovation strategies’ is identified. Two major findings emerge: (i) th...

Regions tend to become the relevant space for the analysis of public funding of innovation, as emphasised by numerous recent works. However, it is still to be demonstrated that the regional level is really the right spatial scaling for implementing innovation public policies. The aim of this paper is to provide a series of analytical and empirical elements that could help clarify this issue. Th...

Increasingly, a small number of low-wage countries such as China and India are involved in incremental innovation. That is, they are responsible for resolving production-line bugs and suggesting product improvements. We provide evidence of this new phenomenon and develop a model in which there is a transition from old-style product-cycle trade to trade involving incremental innovation in low-wa...