How European public sector agencies innovate: The use of bottom-up, policy-dependent and knowledge-scanning innovation methods

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1271-1282

  Arundel, Anthony ^a   Casali, Luca ^b   Hollanders, Hugo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Innovation outcomes; Innovation survey; Public sector innovation; Taxonomy of innovation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

BOTTOM UP; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FACTOR AND CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INNOVATION METHODS; PER CAPITA INCOME; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR AGENCIES;

SCANNING;

EID: 84951287810     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.04.007     Document Type: Article

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