.. [are] ‘those innovations that generate market and/or technological discontinuities. These kinds of innovations affect the abilities of incumbent firms to successfully adapt and respond, as well as to sustain their prior market and technological positions. The literature generally categorises discontinuous innovation as either radical or architectural in nature. Continue reading
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These crucial relationships between research effort and innovation performance may be analysed by an input-output linear model developed by Griliches (1979, 1984). Input is the new technological knowledge generated by R&D in industries and universities and output is the patented innovations. The model is Continue reading
The purpose of the Guide is to give Innovators some basic advice on how and when to use the Industrial Property System (patents, trade marks and industrial designs) to optimum effect in the exploitation of their innovations. It covers IPR practice in five countries: UK, France, Iceland, Sweden, and Czech Republic. Continue reading
VISIO 2005 is a two-day conference on ’Systematic Watch and Intelligence for Innovation within Organisations’ organised by ZAINTEC, Technology Watch and Intelligence Service of the Diputacion de Bizkaia, and LEIA Foundation, Technology Development Centre.
Economic Intelligence encompasses an array of different disciplines, methods and technologies. Continue reading
Is it possible to measure individual innovations? Which innovation is most important: the Internet or the Cell phone?
CNN presented the top 25 innovations of the past quarter century, selected by a panel of technology leaders assembled by the Lemelson-MIT Program. Continue reading
As Chris Freeman has pointed out ‘The rate of technological change in any country and the effectiveness of companies in world competition in international/ trade in goods and services, does not depend simply on the scale of their R&D Continue reading
The project “Excellence in Central Macedonia” was successfully completed in June 2005. The project belongs to the Regional Programmes of Innovative Actions, supported by the European Commission, DG Regio, and continued the efforts of previous RTP and RIS+ initiatives to support and expand the regional system of innovation in Central Macedonia, Greece.
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