Innovation is the product of intentional human endeavor. Countries seeking world-leading innovative enterprises and industries need to implement thoughtful and effective national innovation systems, and supporting policy instruments, to maximize their innovation potential. Reports here review the innovation systems/policies of GTIPA-member nations.
SINCE THE DAYS of the first Ford Model T, cars have come a long way.
This special analysis of the patent database maintained by the German Economic Institute (IW) examines how migration is contributing to Germany's innovative power. A first name database, enabling a socio-demographic analysis of all investors living in Germany between 2005 and 2016, was developed specifically for this purpose.
The Oakland A’s have proposed the construction of a gondola system that wil
In a new discussion paper, President and Co-founder Paul Hofheinz and Deputy Director and Senior Fellow Luukas K. Ilves take a look at the coming challenge – and strategic advantage – for a renewed European digital agenda under the incoming European Commission. The discussion paper looks at three key tests Europe faces: 1) An incomplete single market; 2) an incomplete digital society, and 3) the absence of global digital champions coming from within Europe and proposes an Eight-Point Action Plan for the European institutions and the incoming European Commission. Among the key recommendations are “complete the single market,” upgrade the digital AND the single-market dossiers in a commission restructuring, use co-creation and “design thinking” in policymaking and commit to an “Every European Digital” programme to end Europe’s digital divide.
In a refreshing change of pace for the government, which has been reeling u
A market for electricity has a salutary
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Critics of the new IP rules seem to think Canada is a technology backwater
The world stands on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, powered
This report examines the ongoing, mostly state-based efforts aimed at lower