Promoting Innovation Ecosystem from Knowledge Supplying Side

Promoting healthcare innovation on the demand side

Innovation policy often focuses on fortifying the incentives of firms that develop and sell new products by offering them lucrative rights to exclude competitors from the market. Regulators also rely on these same firms-and on similar incentives-to develop information about the effects of their products in patients, despite their obvious conflict of interest. The result may be a distorted under...

The National Innovation Ecosystem: a vehicle toward knowledge-based economy

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are in the transition toward a new, knowledge-based economy. As these states diversify from a petroleum-based economy to knowledge-based industries, the countries’ competitiveness and performance increasingly will depend on their abilities to foster an indigenous capacity for technological innovation. This paper presents a broad framework for a national...

Cluster, Value Network and Business Ecosystem: Knowledge and Innovation Approach

In this paper, three models, cluster, value network and business ecosystem, are assessed and their key features are compared. Conservative, imitative and absorptive innovation strategies are defined and their suitability to these three models is analyzed.

Building Knowledge Economy through Innovation Ecosystem: The Role of Innovation Hubs Draft Analytical Compendium

Strengthening the Humanitarian Innovation Ecosystem Humanitarian Innovation

3 THIS REPORT COMES AT a time when the international humanitarian community is facing unprecedented challenges that are growing in scale, scope and complexity. There is growing awareness of the need for transformational change in what humanitarian actors do and how they do it, to maintain relevance, reputation and impact. This report focuses on new and growing efforts to achieve such change thr...