Innovation and competitiveness: a review
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
- Vol. 10 (3), 363-395
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09537329808524322
Abstract
Increasing interest has been shown by governments in maintaining the competitiveness of their economies by the use of policies designed to encourage advances in science and technohgy, and the adoption of new tachniques by industry. This paper is the result of a literature review and a sumvey of researchers on the concepts of innovation and competitiveness, the relationships between them and the efficiency ofpolicies to promote them. Those policies an considered in the context of alternative economic perspectives, as is the (rather limited) empirical euidence available. Conclusions are drawn on the current stab of the art of innovation policy research.Keywords
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