Economic Analysis of Innovation Extending the Concept of National Innovation Systems

The economic analysis of innovation is important because economic growth in highly industrialized countries and international competitiveness are driven by innovations and technological change. At the same time, there exist marked nation-specific features in the structure of innovative activities and in innovative success. For the study of these national characteristics, the concept of national innovation systems constitutes a powerful and widely applied inter-disciplinary framework in modern innovation theory. This book illuminates this concept from different perspectives. Starting from fundamental conceptual and theoretical issues, it describes and discusses the main development lines of the approach of national innovation systems, and goes on to illustrate an empirical application of this branch of research, offering a new alternative for the quantitative comparative study of national innovation systems.Balzat is the author of 'Economic Analysis of Innovation Extending the Concept of National Innovation Systems', published 2006 under ISBN 9781845426163 and ISBN 1845426169.