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| Innovation: Policy and Practice |
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 Edited by Prof. Marin Petrov, Chairman, Expert Council on Innovation, ARC Fund, and Lecturer, University of National and World Economy - Sofia
ARC Fund, 2004
ISBN 954-90624-6-5
561 pages
See Contants and full text of the book (Available only in Bulgarian).
Innovation is key to enhancing the competitiveness of the Bulgarian economy, to accelerating its economic growth and improving the living standards of its population.
This monograph, titled Innovation: policy and practice, was written by a group of prominent academics and innovation experts, most of them members of ARC Fund’s Expert Council on Innovation, as well as representatives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, universities, high-tech companies and research centers.
The publication contains:
• Analysis of the technological and economic context of innovation, the innovation policy and innovation strategy;
• Characteristic features and models of company innovation management; human resource, financial and information management; models of innovation projects management at company level;
• Analysis of the results of empirical surveys of companies, RTD and intermediary organizations in the South-Central planning region of Bulgaria, prepared in the context of regional innovation strategy formulation;
• Overview of the main trends in EU innovation policy and the key elements of the European Research Area and Sixth Framework Program for Research and Development;
• Annotated chart of benchmarking indicators for scientific, technological and innovation activities in EU candidate countries;
• Comparative analysis of the national innovation systems of Ireland and Sweden;
• Overview of the opportunities and forms of venture capital financing of innovation;
• Analysis of the scientific and innovation policy of Bulgaria, its outcomes, internal and external barriers to innovation and ways to overcome them}
• Assessment and analysis of Bulgaria’s international scientific and technological cooperation and participation in the EU RTD programs;
• Comparative analysis of Bulgarian and EU intellectual property rights legislation;
• Analysis of international aspects and links between innovation, high technology and globalization;
• Bulgarian companies’ and centres’ experience in creating, implementing and transferring innovation results.
The book is addressed to a broad readership interested in innovation issues, including representatives of central governments, regional and local administrations, company managers, members of scientific and intermediary organizations, academics, researchers and students.
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