HANDBOOK OF INNOVATION ECONOMICS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: MEASURING INNOVATION ACTIVITIES AND TECHNICAL CHANGE -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. DEFINING TECHNICAL CHANGE AND THE INNOVATION ACTIVITIES -- 1.3. MEASUREMENT AND LEADING INDICATORS OF INNOVATION ACTIVITIES -- 1.4. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 2: MODELING INNOVATION ACTIVITIES -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. ECONOMIC THEORY AND TECHNICAL CHANGE -- 2.3. THE GROWTH-ACCOUNTING -- 2.4. NEW GROWTH DEBATE -- 2.5. A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO ENDOGENOUS THEORY -- 2.6. MODELING INNOVATION ACTIVITIES AND TECHNICAL CHANGE -- 2.7. Modelling Technological Progress in a Production Function -- 2.8. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 3: INNOVATION ACTIVITIES AND THE PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLE -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. INNOVATION ACTIVITIES AND THE PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH -- 3.3. THEORY AND MEASUREMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH -- 3.4. MEASURING THE PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH -- 3.5. PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY -- 3.6. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 4: TECHNICAL CHANGE AND THE DIFFUSION MODELS -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. INNOVATION ACTIVITIES AND THE DIFFUSION PROCESS -- 4.3. DIFFUSION MODELS AND THE NEW GROWTH THEORY -- 4.4. INTER-COUNTRY AND INTERNATIONAL DIFFUSION MODELS -- 4.5. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 5: NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. ENTREPRENEURSHIP, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS (FDIS) AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES -- 5.3. NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION -- 5.4. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 6: EUROPEAN INNOVATION POLICY AND REGIONAL CONVERGENCE -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. INNOVATION POLICY AND THE KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY -- 6.3. THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND THE INNOVATION ACTIVITIES -- 6.4. THE EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGICAL POLICY -- 6.5. EUROPEAN INNOVATION POLICY AND REGIONAL COHESION IN EUROPE.

6.6. THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION -- 6.7. SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS -- 7. POLICY PERSPECTIVES -- 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.