Showing papers in "Research Policy in 2008"

TL;DR: In this paper, a functional approach to analyzing innovation system dynamics is proposed for policy makers to identify the key policy issues and set policy goals, based on previous literature and their own experience in developing and applying functional thinking.

TL;DR: First elements of a path towards an integrated framework that combines the strengths of the two approaches and allows providing a better understanding of radical innovation processes and socio-technical transformations are outlined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used two German panel databases, the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Mannheim innovation panel (MIP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), to explore the determinants of environmental innovations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an update to the index of patent protection published in this journal in 1997, and extended it to 122 countries, including the USA, Canada, and India.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a quantile regression approach to compare innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors, and observed that innovation is of crucial importance for a handful of fast-growth firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the importance of differentiating between different varieties of knowing in action, and propose a typology of four modes: craft or task-based knowing, epistemic or high creativity knowing, professional knowing, and virtual knowing.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative importance of different channels in different contexts is explained by disciplinary origin, characteristics of the underlying knowledge, the characteristics of researchers involved in producing and using this knowledge, and the environment in which knowledge is produced and used.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic reflection on the Gibbons-Nowotny notion of "mode 2 knowledge production" is presented. But it suffers from severe conceptual problems, and it is time to untie its five major constitutive claims and investigate each separately.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the role of an alliance network in terms of the technological distance between partners, a firm's network position (centrality) and total network density, and found that successful exploration indeed seems to require a delicate balance between these two exploration tasks.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of capabilities in economic development has been investigated using factor analysis on data for 25 indicators and 115 countries between 1992 and 2004, identifying four different types of capabilities: the development of the innovation system, the quality of governance, the character of the political system, and the degree of openness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors model the innovation value chain for a large group of manufacturing firms in Ireland and Northern Ireland and find strong complementarity between horizontal, forwards, backwards, public and internal knowledge sourcing activities.

TL;DR: In this article, a new sectoral taxonomy that combines manufacturing and service industries within the same general framework is presented, which aims to achieve a greater integration between the study of sectoral patterns of innovation in manufacturing and services, and point out the increasing importance of vertical linkages and inter-sectoral knowledge exchanges between these interrelated branches of the economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the contribution of some universities to local and regional economic dynamism is much richer than overly mechanistic depictions suggest, arguing that universities produce other mechanisms of knowledge transfer, such as generating and attracting talent to the local economy, and collaborating with local industry by providing formal and informal technical support.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the use of specialist knowledge providers as sources of information in the innovation activities of manufacturing and service firms and find that they are more likely to be engaged by firms with more open approaches to innovation, those with high levels of absorptive capacity, those having greater social capital and networking capabilities, as well as by those with deeper commitments to innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the limitations of the multi-level perspective for the analysis of long-term technological transitions and suggest ways in which the MLP may be effectively rethought, based on more thoroughgoing application of a co-evolutionary concept of technological transitions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how mid-range universities can contribute to industrial change through the transfer of tacit and codified knowledge in the areas of spin-offs; licensing and patents; contract research, consultancy and reach-out; and graduate and researcher mobility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the effect of R&D subsidies on the subsidized firms and analyze the effect that concession of subsidies might have on firms which do not enjoy this type of support.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the university has evolved from performing conventional research and education functions to serving as an innovation-promoting knowledge hub though the case of Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

TL;DR: In this article, a co-evolutionary model of technological frames and technology is developed to understand technology trajectories across the life cycle, and conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of factors external and internal to the firm, on product innovation novelty, and how this effect varies by industry, is analyzed based on a sample of 6094 manufacturing firms, taken from the Spanish Survey of Technological Innovation 2000.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the impact of geographic dispersion of a firm's R&D activities on the quality of its innovative output using data on over half a million patents from 1127 firms.

TL;DR: The knowledge paradox suggests that high levels of investment in new knowledge do not necessarily and automatically generate the anticipated levels of competitiveness of growth as mentioned in this paper, and that knowledge investments do not automatically translate into balanced growth and competitiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how technological diversification influences the rate and specific types of innovative competence of biotechnology firms and find that technological diversity may mitigate core rigidities and path dependencies by enhancing novel solutions that accelerate the rate of invention, especially that which departs from a firm's past activities.

TL;DR: Kirton et al. as mentioned in this paper measured the innovativeness and personality of SME entrepreneurs by using two different scales that are based on inventories and tested their effects on the entrepreneurs' intention to adopt innovations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a way of analyzing the relationship between institutions and technological change and technological advance using the concept of "social technologies" which support "physical technologies" plays a key role in the analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation, and performance at the firm level, and found that firms that rely on Internet-enabled innovations are at least as likely to grow as firms who rely on non-Internet enabled innovations.

TL;DR: This article used renewal data to estimate the value of U.S. patents, controlling for patent and owner characteristics, and found that patent citations explain little variance in patent value, suggesting limits to their use as a measure of patent quality.

TL;DR: In this article, a number of economic theories for science, technology and innovation (STI) policy can be derived from different economic theories, including theories usually associated with spatial dynamics and territorial relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of China's national innovative capacity was conducted up to the year 2005, showing a surge in patenting activity by Chinese firms and organizations since 2001, and analyzing the drivers behind this, as well as the quality characteristics of the patenting in terms of intensity, impact and links with the science base.

TL;DR: The authors empirically test whether public R&D subsidies crowd out private investment in Flanders and Germany, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS III and IV).