National innovation systems, capabilities and economic development

Cities , systems of innovation and economic development

Innovative cities are essential for the economic growth and development of countries. At the same time, however, social and environmental problems related to city growth can be serious threats to the full realisation of the socio-economic contribution that cities can make. In this paper it is argued that the notion of a “system of innovation” is helpful in understanding the factors that shape t...

Universities in national innovation systems

Multisectoral Growth and National Innovation Systems

Terje Lensberg and other participants of the NOPEC conference on "Innovations, Policy and Society" (Oslo, December 1997) are gratefully acknowledged. 2 Because of their emphasis on bounded rationality and on technology as a very special kind of good, many economists dealing with the economics of technical change and the broader field of evolutionary economics tend to apply a form of theorising ...

Transfer of technology and national economic development.

The United States is currently in the throes of fuel shortages and is facing a national debate on energy policy. Western Europe and Japan are dependent on supplies from the Middle, Eastern, and African nations. Collectively these developed nations, plus Canada and the United States, account for nearly three-quarters of the free world's petroleum consumption and their consumption is growing rapi...

Culture, economic development, and national ethical attitudes

To understand the influence of culture on ethical attitudes, a variety of countries must be compared simultaneously to avoid confounding of cultural dimensions. This study uses data from the World Values Survey to develop a measure of ethical attitudes that shows partial measurement invariance across 44 countries. Regressing the resulting latent means on four cultural dimensions [Hofstede G. Cu...