Showing papers in "Research Policy in 2002"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of how technological transitions (TT) come about and identify particular patterns and mechanisms in transition processes, defined as major, long-term technological changes in the way societal functions are fulfilled.

TL;DR: The concept of sectoral system of innovation and production as mentioned in this paper provides a multidimensional, integrated and dynamic view of sectors, where agents carry out market and non-market interactions for the creation, production and sale of those products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore 40 years of data on R&D partnerships and present an analysis of some basic historical trends and sectoral patterns in R&DM partnering since 1960, and also provide an overview of some major international (sectoral) patterns in the forming of RDR partnerships within the Triad (North America, Europe and Asia).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a novel framework based on the concept of national innovative capacity, which is the ability of a country to produce and commercialize a flow of innovative technology over the long term.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an exploratory and a regression-based comparison of the innovation count data and data on patent counts at the lowest possible levels of geographical aggregation, and determine the extent to which the innovation data can be substituted by other measures for a deeper understanding of the dynamics involved.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how the Aalborg-version of the concept evolved by a combination of ideas that moved from production structure towards including all elements and relationships contributing to innovation and competence building.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the response to the UK's version of the second European community innovation survey (CIS-2) to investigate the patterns of co-operation between innovating firms and external partners.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the analytical and methodological issues arising from various system concepts, including the appropriate level of analysis for the purpose at hand, and the key relationships that need to be captured so that the important interaction takes place within the system rather than outside.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored determinants of innovation capability in small UK electronics and software firms and found that the importance of R&D, the key role played by the regional science base in nurturing high-tech spin-offs, and proximity to suppliers.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework that explores the linkage between the evolution of global production networks (GPN), the role of network flagships in transferring knowledge, and the formation of capabilities by local suppliers is developed.

TL;DR: This paper found that intraindustry R&D knowledge flows and spillovers are greater in Japan than in the US and the appropriability of rents due to innovation less, suggesting that patent policy can importantly affect information flows.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify two principal location rationales-access to markets and access to science-as the principal determinants for four trends that lead to four archetypes of R&D internationalization: national treasure, market-driven, technology-driven and global.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the role of knowledge flows between universities and firms in the Austrian national innovation system and provided valuable insights into several dimensions of knowledge flow that are not typically explored in research on this topic.

TL;DR: In this article, a sample composed of 45 Italian NTBFs which at the beginning of 2000 were located on technology incubator within a park is compared with a control sample of off-incubator firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relevance of innovation systems to economic growth rates over the last two centuries and discuss variations in rates of growth of economic regions and the extent to which variations may be attributed to "innovation systems".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate significant differences between the determinants of export performance among the UK and German manufacturing plants using comparable plant-level surveys and demonstrate that product innovation, however measured, has a strong effect on the probability and propensity to export in both countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of an emerging area of biomedicine (tissue engineering) is presented, based on a novel methodology that takes advantage of the fact that an idea is often inscribed in both a patent and paper, thus forming a patent-paper pair.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess how SMEs' internal research capacities help them to exploit external scientific and technical knowledge and to use networks of innovators, based on case studies made of projects which were partly financed by ANVAR, a French national agency responsible for the development of innovation projects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-method field study indicates that larger more mechanistic firms especially those in resource intense industrial sectors use knowledge transfer and research support relationships to build competencies in non-core technological areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ data envelopment analysis (DEA) combined with regression analysis to examine the overall productivity of university licensing activity as well as the productivity of individual universities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared firms on and off Science Parks in Sweden (1996-1998) in an effort to identify any element of added value which the park provides for new technology-based firms (NTBFs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the characteristics of US academic patents before and after the effective date of the Bayh-Dole act and found that the effects of the act on the content of academic research and patenting at Stanford and University of California were modest.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the determinants of the foreign location of technological activities of multinational firms (MNFs): do they locate their knowledge activities as a consequence of their home country advantages or according to host country strengths?

TL;DR: A review of recent developments in cognitive science has made possible greater contact between the two fields, and points to a variety of interesting connections as discussed by the authors. But there has been very little overlap or even interchange between scholars studying technological advance, and scholars in the field of cognitive science.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the problems that firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector face when they adopt advanced technology and concluded that the information on impediments in technology surveys should not be interpreted as impenetrable barriers that prevent technology adoption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss and outline a perspective on economic growth based on evolutionary theory, and show that the importance of innovation for economic growth has increased lately, while at the same time imitation, (or diffusion) has become more demanding.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore links between the development of innovation theory since the late 1970s and the evolution of innovation policy ideas, primarily in the 1990s, and argue that there is a close connection between theory and policy, so that theory can be seen as an integrated, co-evolving and interactive process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Thailand as a case study to understand the national innovation system (NIS) in developing countries which are less successful in technological catching-up and found that the development level of Thailand's NIS does not link to its economic structural development level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that R&D inertia is associated with structural inertia and resultant systemic lock-in, and they seek to enquire why firms tend to concentrate their research activities at home, using a systems of innovation approach.

TL;DR: The growing literature on national systems of innovations (NSIs) is creating a crucial new perspective on the institutional infrastructure of the knowledge-based economy as discussed by the authors, but this literature tends to be somewhat optimistic: it often takes for granted that NSIs are sets of institutions facilitating learning, particularly about technology and organization.