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
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Intelligent Cities – Smart Cities – Innovation Ecosystems
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
Digital Cities are proliferating worldwide. Intel® is one of the major manufactuers of technologies that enable governments to deliver the interoperable services that facilitate interaction between departments, businesses and citizens, in ways that they want and at minimum cost.
Learn more about Intel’s integrated vision for government services that support and enable Government efficiency, safety and security, economic vitality, and citizen satisfaction. 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
In late 2004, The Boston Consulting Group conducted its second annual global survey of senior executives on innovation and the innovation-to-cash (ITC) process. A total of 940 executives, representing 68 countries and all major industries, participated.
This report highlights some of the top-level findings from the survey and explores the implications. It also offers a framework to guide managers as they continue to think about how to turn their ideas into profits. 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