A new report based on a Horizon 2020 monitoring exercise, featuring contributions from UNU-MERIT’s Ad Notten, confirms the continued progress of EU Open Science. With a steady increase over the years and an average success rate of 83% open access to scientific publications, the European Commission is at the forefront of research and innovation funders, concluded the consortium formed by the analysis company PPMI (Lithuania), research and innovation centre Athena (Greece) and Maastricht Uni...
Innovation often relies on outside knowledge. First, in terms of “absorptive capacity”, or how much a firm can use external knowledge. Second, in terms of “search diversity”, or how the more a firm seeks external knowledge the more innovative it tends to be. A new paper co-authored by visiting researcher Abiodun Egbetokun studies the latter and breaks new ground in African research. The Role of Industry and Economic Context in Open Innovation: Evidence from Nigeria analys...