This paper reviews and analyses the rationale for an innovation policy in services. It focuses
on the relevance of the various categories of market and system failures, on the basis of …

This paper analyzes the relationships between firms' external search of knowledge and its
role in cooperation strategies for innovation. In particular, this study accounts for differences …

Service innovations are ubiquitous and do affect our daily and business lives intensively. A
few firm-level examples may illustrate our point. In retailing IKEA has over the years …

The share of knowledge intensive services and products in total output and demand and in
the production of advanced, but also less advanced or emerging economies has steadily …

Services are becoming dominant activities in the world, and service innovation is a way to
increase growth and welfare. Service-innovation policies are justified by a wide range of …

The development towards a service-driven economy is a process that has been under way
for some decades now. It is increasingly acknowledged that in advanced economies most …

Este trabajo trata de clarificar la tendencia actual en la distribución de los servicios
intensivos en conocimiento (KIS) a nivel regional en Europa, debido a su aparición como …

This paper reports out of the symposium on'Technology Management in the Service
Sector'which was held as a part of Portland International Conference on Management of …

The paper presents a strategic academic project, promoting in collaboration with industry a
modern educational frame for skills and competence training in higher education in the area …

Executive summary Eurostat statistics define the Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) sector
as a broad set of activities of a very different nature. KIS include many forms of professional …