review of studies indicates that development endeavors in science, technology and innovation (sti) arenas are counted as main accelerators of economic growth and social welfare. for that, governments and international organizations increasingly see the evaluation of science, technology and innovation as an important agenda for their policy and action. this article goes to employ document study ...

This paper analyzes innovation trends in South Korea by means of the number of patent applications filed by residents and nonresidents during the period 1965 to 2012. Making use of patent data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), we search for the presence of multiple structural changes in patent application series in this country. These changes may suggest that firm...

This paper analyzes innovation trends in Latin America countries by means of the number of patent applications filed by residents and non residents during the period 1965 to 2012. Making use of patent data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), we search for the presence of multiple structural changes in patent application series in Argentina, Brazil Chile, and Mexico....

This paper describes a conceptual framework for understanding the role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in the evolving sustainable development challenge. It develops the key concepts behind STI and draws linkages between STI and the sustainable development goals, identifying some of the key challenges in strengthening STI capacities in ESCAP Member States. Lastly it sets out a pathw...

The creation of Colciencias, in the late 1960s was a response to regional and multilateral initiatives promoted mainly by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Colciencias has since been the government agency in charge of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy-making and implementation, including fun...

Given the economic, societal and environmental relevance of innovation, this paper contrasts various models of innovation, compares how innovation is understood in mainstream economics and evolutionary economics of innovation and juxtaposes the concomitant policy rationales. By discussing two monitoring tools used by the European Commission to assess its member states‟ innovation performance, i...

In a knowledge-based economy, science and technology are omnipresent and their importance is undisputed. Equally evident is the need to allocate resources, both monetary and human, in an effective way to foster innovation (Ahrweiler et al., 2015; Watts & Nigel, 2014). In the preceding decades, science policy has embraced data mining and metrics to gain insights into the structure and evolution ...

This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of 1604 firms in the five largest Norwegian city-regions to test, by means of a logit regression analysis, Jensen et al.’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘science, technology and innovation’ (STI) and ‘doing, using and interacting’ (DUI) modes of firm le...

Globally there is an increasing focus on science, technology, and innovation (STI) throughout all industries and government sectors leading to demands for a larger, more diverse workforce. However, such demand is hardly filled by the supply. The overall goal of this study is to present a strategy to attract incoming freshmen, especially female students, to the STI fields and to increase the ret...