Indicators for national science and technology policy: how robust are composite indicators?

Article Abstract:

Some core issues that are central to the late Keith Pavitt's research are addressed here, mainly the construction and use of tools to measure national innovative performance and to design national policies relating to innovation. The robustness of the innovation scoreboards is studied through the presentation of the sensitivity analysis of one selected case.

United States

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Networks of inventors and the role of academia: an exploration of Italian patent data

Article Abstract:

A quantitative analysis of social distance between Open Science and Proprietary Technology is proposed. The general properties of social networks within both the realms are discussed as they both emerge from the new economies of science and recent applied work on 'small worlds'.

Italy

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The renewal of regional capabilities - experimental regionalism in Germany

Article Abstract:

A study based on regions in Germany for innovativeness of a region is presented. The effect of the region's ability to recombine technological, organizational and scientific capabilities through regional policies on the region's innovativeness is examined.

Organizational history, Location

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