The growth potential of countries increasingly depends on the effectiveness of their innovation systems in creating, diffusing and using knowledge. A large share of market-based or informal knowledge flows occur within industrial clusters that can be seen as reduced-form innovation systems. Policies to stimulate innovation at national and local levels must both build on and contribute to the dy...

Despite an exceptional economic performance achieved over the last decade, Peru still lags behind other middle-income Latin American economies in terms of per capita income and productivity. The Peruvian economy remains relatively undiversified, largely dependent on natural resources. The national innovation system is under development, weakly integrated, and underfunded, with few incentives fo...

Profound changes are taking place in the world economy and in the innovation systems of countries. The main influencing trends could be summarized by the terms globalization, liberalization, dematerialization, and technological revolution. Their joint effects have been the enhanced uncertainty and turbulence felt in the world economic system since the 1973 crisis and the gradual emergence of a ...

In the last years, the research in diverse disciplines has increased the importance of innovation studies at the national level. In this sense, this paper proposes the development of National Innovation Systems (NIS) and its application to the economy in Mexico. Considering the characteristics and limitations of the study region, the mentioned proposal of NIS it is necessary to integrate the st...

The National Innovation Centre, which is part of England’s National Health Service, has developed a Semantic Web Platform to improve the speed and quality of health technology innovation development. This platform links data from multiple sources, via automated, semi-automated and manual processes. The collected data and information is rendered on the NIC’s Triple Store using the NIC’s Open Hea...

1 Learning from experience Innovation in the NHS is now being driven regionally by strategic health authorities. Learning how other national and international organisations have approached, planned and embedded innovation will help SHAs foster a culture of innovation. This overview outlines key evidence about what has worked well and what has been challenging elsewhere in adopting and dissemina...

Terje Lensberg and other participants of the NOPEC conference on "Innovations, Policy and Society" (Oslo, December 1997) are gratefully acknowledged. 2 Because of their emphasis on bounded rationality and on technology as a very special kind of good, many economists dealing with the economics of technical change and the broader field of evolutionary economics tend to apply a form of theorising ...

Ukraine is suffering from low level of innovation activities and widening gap between the industry and research institutions, both in government and higher education sectors. This is reflected in shrinking of R&D financing, declining share of a number of graduates in natural sciences and engineering and some other indicators. Orientation on development of traditional industries of the national ...