innovation management and the knowledge driven economy

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1、INNOVATIONMANAGEMENTANDTHEKNOWLEDGE-DRIVENECONOMYJanuary20041EuropeanCommissionDirectorate-generalforEnterpriseInnovationManagementandtheKnowledge-DrivenEconomyLegalnoticeNeithertheEuropeanCommission,noranypersonactingonbehalfoftheCommission,isresponsibleforan

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3、cutiveSummaryExecutiveSummaryKnowledgeisconsideredasaneconomicdriverintoday’seconomy,ithasbe-comeacommoditythatcanbepacked,boughtandsold.Thisevolutionhasbeenenhancedbybythedevelopmentofinformationandcommunicationtech-nologies(ICTs)thathavereducedthecostofgathe

4、ringanddisseminatingknowl-edge.Thecontributionofknowledgetoinnovationhasbeenachievedmostnotablybyreducingtransactioncostsbetweencompaniesandotheractors,especiallyinareassuchasinformationsearchandbuying.Aknowledge-basedeconomyisdefinedasaneconomydirectlybasedon

5、theproduction,distributionanduseofknowledge.Insucheconomiesthereisahighdegreeofconnectivitybetweentheagentsinvolved,andknowledgeiswidelyusedandexploitedinallmannerofeconomicactivity.Wehavenowprogressedfromtheknowledge-basedeconomytotheknowledge-driveneconomy,e

6、mphasisingthefactthatthecurrentcontributionofknowledgeisverymuchasthedynamoofoureconomy.Theknowledge-driveneconomybringsnewchallengesforbusiness.Marketsarebecomingmoreglobalwithnewcompetitors,productlifecyclesareshorten-ing,customersaremoredemandingandthecompl

7、exityoftechnologyisin-creasing.Sowhiletheknowledgeeconomyrepresentsnewopportunities,certainactionsareneededtosupportandtakeadvantageofthesedevelopments.TheimportanceofinnovationTheknowledge-driveneconomyaffectstheinnovationprocessandtheapproachtoinnovation.The

8、traditionalideathatinnovationisbaseduponresearch(tech-nology-pushtheory)andinteractionbetweenfirmsandotheractorsisreplacedbythecurrentsocialnetworktheoryofinnovation,whereknowledge