Carlos Montalvo

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Innovation and competitiveness amongst firms are currently seen as some of the main economic multipliers in industrialised and emerging economies. After 50 years of theoretical and empirical development in innovation studies explaining Why? and How? innovation occurs at the firm level remains as a prime challenge for academics and practitioners. In...

Innovation systems theory stresses the central importance of knowledge and the transfer of knowledge between the different actors of an innovation system, yet there are no methodological tools to systematically analyse the dynamics of such relationships. In this paper we propose a multi-disciplinary approach drawing on social psychology to integrat...

The urgent need for innovation to address multifaceted and intertwined water-related challenges is becoming increasingly clear, acknowledged and responded to with cumulating sources and amounts of funding. Nevertheless, the water sector has been claimed to be less innovative than other sectors. This Special Volume (SV) on the dynamics of water inno...

Although much work has been done on the regulation and governance of innovation, such work provides few formal analytical tools to enable us to learn about the dynamics of the regulatory system in terms of the interaction between regulators and firms. If governance occurs in a context of mutual interdependence and power asymmetries, governments ine...

The aim of this study is to provide strategic and practical advice to the European Commission General Directorate DG MOVE on the policy-related actions required to address disruptive digital developments, particularly the transition to automated driving and its effects on driver behaviour and performance. Automated driving brings a number of change...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have gained importance and the world is moving on a sustainability trajectory, which requires organisations to balance financial, environmental, and social dimensions of management. Companies are encouraged to adopt sustainable innovations that include resource efficiency, waste reduction, energy use, responsibl...

The Digital Building Logbook (DBL) team is currently in the process of identifying databases that are potentially relevant for the development of an EU portal where people would be able to search for information on individual buildings or a group of buildings meeting certain search criteria. In the first place, such an EU portal requires the existe...

Higher education institutions (HEIs), with their research output and researchers, can make significant contributions to firms. Nevertheless, what drives researchers’ intention to collaborate with firms still requires further exploration. Taking a behavioral approach, this study developed and validated a model and corresponding survey instruments to...

The debate on citizen participation in the energy transition is closely connected to a recently established notion of citizenship: energy citizenship. By conducting an integrative literature review, we formulate a holistic definition of energy citizenship and explore the heterogenous behaviours of energy citizens as well as their emergence within t...

Over past decades concepts like sustainability and industrial development are slowly coming to the same operational logic. This is indicated by a growing interest to explore and describe the synergy between developments in the Circular Economy (ID) and Industrial Digitalization (ID). There is agreement on their complementarity evolution paths, but...

Over past decades concepts like sustainability and industrial development are slowly coming to the same operational logic. This is indicated by a growing interest to explore and describe the synergy between developments in the Circular Economy (ID) and Industrial Digitalization (ID). There is agreement on their complementarity evolution paths, but...

University-industry collaboration is increasing its significance due to the active role that society demand from universities. An entrepreneurial university requires understanding the different rationalities and asymmetries of university, researchers and industry in order to best encourage inter-organizational willingness to collaborate as well as...

This report presents an assessment of the issues driving and barriers slowing the development and uptake of cleaner technologies across the energy, agricultural, transport and industrial sectors of the economy. Based on Behavioural Insights the report identifies what are the barriers impeding progress of cleaner technologies and what policy initiat...

Shift2Rail (S2R) develops fundamental building blocks for the future rail system, as demonstrated by the technological possibilities and evolutionary change envisaged in its work program and Multi‐Annual Action Plan (MAAP). However, S2R work programmes need to be continuously monitored and updated to ensure that it optimally makes use of the potent...

Digital platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Amazon, Uber, AirBnB are everywhere today. There are many types of these so called B2C platforms such as: social platforms, markets and e-commerce platforms and service platforms (Airbnb, Uber), etc. Industrial B2B platforms are relative new. Industrial B2B platforms can be defined as as a collec...

the presentation offers a heuristics as to how to scope an innovation study in the field of innovation research. The heuristics is oriented to create awareness of linkages and implicit relations amongst diverse areas of innovation research

Innovation is recognized as one of the cornerstone of development at the nation and global level with effects at many levels (individuals behaviours, life styles, employment, health, mobility, privacy, sustainability, etc.). Such pervasive effect has called for intervention on intended and non-intended consequences of innovation at the management,...

Innovation is recognized as one of the cornerstone of development at the nation and global level with effects at many levels (individuals behaviours, life styles, employment, health, mobility, privacy, sustainability, etc.). Such pervasive effect has called for intervention on intended and non-intended consequences of innovation at the management,...

European industry has seen a notable structural change over the last 20 years whereby a substantial amount of industrial activity was off-shored to emerging economies taking advantages of low costs production centers abroad, thus increasing profitability of operations based in Europe. The relocation of industrial activities had several long term ef...

Dieser Bericht zeichnet ein Bild der Auswirkungen nachhaltigkeitspolitischer Maßnahmen auf die Bereiche Kompetenzen und Beschäftigung in den europäischen Sektoren Werkzeugmaschinen und Robotik. Er wurde im Rahmen eines von industriAll European Trade Union, CECIMO, EU-Nited und CEEMET in Auftrag gegebenen Projekts durchgeführt und über einen von der...

El presente informe describe a grandes rasgos las consecuencias que tendrían, en términos de empleo y cualificaciones, las políticas de sostenibilidad puestas en práctica en los sectores europeos de las máquinas-herramienta y la robótica. Dicho informe forma parte de un proyecto dirigido por el sindicato industrial europeo industriAll, Cecimo, EUni...

Le rapport expose les conséquences des politiques de durabilité pour les compétences et l’emploi dans les secteurs européens des machines-outils et de la robotique. Il fait partie d’un projet de la Commission dirigé par industriAll European Trade Union, le Cecimo, EUnited, et le Ceemet, et financé par une subvention de la DG Emploi, Affaires social...

The report outlines the consequences of sustainability policies for skills and employment in the European machine tools and robotics sectors. It is part of a project commission by industriAll European Trade Union, Cecimo, EUnited, and Ceemet, and financed through a grant by DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion under the heading ‘Support to soc...

Il presente rapporto delinea le conseguenze delle politiche di sostenibilità su competenze e occupazione nei settori europei delle macchine utensili e della robotica. Fa parte di un progetto commissionato da industriAll Europe, Cecimo, EUnited e Ceemet, finanziato tramite sovvenzione concessa dalla DG Occupazione, affari sociali e inclusione nel qu...

Looking at the historical development of economic activities, we see that they have evolved away from the simple supply of food, shelter and raw materials to the supply of industrially manufactured goods to the supply of utility-optimizing services. Over the last 40 years, there has been an increasing concern with the environmental impact of econom...

There is no doubt that in the long run investments in innovation, and more specifically in research and development, are beneficial at the level of companies, sectors and countries. But as soon as we start to dig deeper into the ways in which this works we enter into a world with complex and heterogeneous developments. In most cases these insights...

This report outlines the methodology used and results obtained in the study carried out by VVA Europe, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) and the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research (TNO) on the economic impacts of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR - Regulation (EU) No 305/2011). In particular, an EU-wide consulta...

This brochure summarises the results of a project looking into ways, in which public authorities can best stimulate KETs pilot production. This is of great importance since the European Union (EU) programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020, has dedicated more than EUR 6 billion to innovation activities for KETs—a significant investment, wh...

The goal of the mKETs-PL project is to prepare and foster a common understanding and consensus for future actions in Europe focusing on multi-KETs pilot lines Low cost multi-user pilot lines offer advantages to their users. Because of the high expectations on printed electronics to be price competitive with graphical printing, market development an...

Technology is crucial to maintaining or building industrial leadership. Most governments support research and development (R&D) in key enabling and industrial technologies (KETs). In Europe, as in other world regions, the translation of R&D results into new products and services is suboptimal, and so also are its impacts on growth, jobs and societa...

Innovations are needed to solve societal challenges and adapt to a dynamic world. Most innovations require the support of multiple stakeholders in order to be implemented successfully. Stakeholders base their decision to support an innovation primarily on the attractiveness of the financial business case. Stakeholders faced with a negative case, es...

Different bodies of literature have attempted to explain what factors and events drive industries throughout processes of environmental change. The latter is a gradual, historical process of evolution from lower to higher degrees of development. Based on concepts derived from evolutionary economics, greening technological progress and resource-base...

This paper exemplifies the use of qualitative research methods in eco-innovation research using large volumes of data. The document presents a method for performing a computer-aided content analysis of a large pool of publications, and it is used to pre-identify factors related to sustainability and innovation in the chemical sector. NVivo® was use...

Can European policy keep up with global innovation and production dynamics? Europe is committed to maintain its welfare model in the long run but challenging this commitment are two important dimensions. The first concerns the building of Europe itself and its internal contractions that are continually evolving and limiting its capacity to swiftly...

In order to explore the consequences of the challenges to the patterns of innovation and competition along global value chains on the one hand and the implications for innovation policy based on seeking solutions for the challenges in relation to regional specialization patterns on the other hand, the Six Countries Programme organized a conference...

This foresight activity provides market, societal and regulatory trends, with the aim to compare these with present and expected technology developments and, thus, to able to derive R&D needs to address identified gaps. This document provides an overview of societal trends that are foreseen to unfold until 2030. The exercise is based on an analysis...

EN Several studies from the European Commission show the well-placed position of the Netherlands within the European innovation ranking. However, under a more comprehensive innovation indicator, it is found that there is still much to gain in the transition from outcomes in innovation activities to innovation turnover. NL Uit verschillende rapport...

- Get full manuscript from http://intereconomics.eu/archive/year/2015/1/ The EU’s stagnation on many innovation indicators led to a number of efforts to spur a turnaround. One of most visible projects has been the Horizon 2020 strategy, which devotes unprecedented levels of funding to the promotion of R&D and innovation. But does this strategy add...

Forum on European Policy Review: The Impact of Horizon 2020 on Innovation in Europe Reinhilde Veugelers, Michele Cincera, Rainer Frietsch, Torben Schubert, Christian Rammer, Anita Pelle, Andrea Renda, Jos Leijten, Carlos Montalvo The EU's stagnation on many innovation indicators led to a number of efforts to spur a turnaround. One of most visible...

In Europe there is clear interest on the instrumental role of innovation to face the grand challenges and the subsequent effects on economic performance. There are several forces of historical relevance that contribute to this interest. First, the world faces significant number of long term challenges (e.g., climate change, population ageing, pollu...

Innovation systems theory stresses the central importance of knowledge and the transfer of knowledge between the different actors of an innovation system, yet there are no methodological tools to systematically analyse the dynamics of such relationships. Most studies on knowledge transfer look at the supply or the demand sides, taking an essentiall...

Access to water is a human right and essential for meeting basic human needs. Furthermore, water is indispensible for agriculture, healthy ecosystems and all industrial processes and, therefore, for economic development. Yet the water sector, particularly in developing countries, is facing enormous challenges due to climate change, rapid population...

Taking stock of how global innovation networks and policies (national, regional, international) interact.

Transport congestion and the quality of the air in cities is a persistent concern for urban planners, and in this context Park and Ride (P + R) facilities have been proposed as an element of urban sustainability strategies in many cities in Europe. In 2008 a European Commission directive aimed at improving local air quality has been introduced, the...

The advanced oxidation of paracetamol (PAM) promoted by TiO(2)/UV system in aqueous medium was investigated. Monitoring this reaction by HPLC and TOC, it was demonstrated that while oxidation of paracetamol is quite efficient under these conditions, its mineralization is not complete. HPLC indicated the formation of hydroquinone, benzoquinone, p-am...

In Europe innovation is currently a cornerstone for economic development and to face the great challenges of human kind. Monitoring progress and measuring what drives innovation is crucial for policy development. Information infrastructures on innovation in Europe contain a number of indicators. Current performance indicators at the national or sec...

Europe is currently facing the reality of a new international multipolar context in which the rules of the game are being reset. The industrial and innovation policies that have traditionally ruled international competitiveness are rapidly changing. Many nations strong in the international arena master not only the policies and strategies for cost-...

This chapter analyses automotive firms perspectives in hydrogen cars development. The chapter examines the framing of firms by studying the beliefs systems in decision makers and measures actual engagement on innovation. The central question was: Which underlying beliefs significantly drive the development of hydrogen technology? A second question...

The aim of this report is to capture eco-innovative activity and provide a detailed examination of the potential for eco-innovation in nine sectors: biotechnology, automotive, electrical and optical equipment, aeronautics and space, construction, knowledge intensive business services, wholesale and retail trade, textile and clothing, and food and d...

Recent policy developments at the European level have placed innovation as one of the cornerstones for economic development and to face some of the great human challenges of this century. Due to the renewed importance of innovation its promotion and performance are critical for the new European innovation strategy (European Commission, 2010a, 2010b...

The overall objective of this study is to identify market and regulation/policy factors (e.g. competition, consumer behaviour, access to finance, product, standards, etc.) that hamper or drive innovative activities in the nine sectors under consideration (biotechnology, electrical and optical equipment, automotive, space and aeronautics, constructi...

This chapter looks at the costs to the sector under a “business-as-usual” scenario and offers a number of strategic approaches to encourage green manufacturing investments in different technologies. It argues that investing in greening manufacturing can often be profitable to business and increase employment, while reducing pressure on the environm...

Transport congestion and the quality of the air in city centres is a major concern for urban planners. In recent years Park and Ride (P+R) facilities have been increasingly introduced by local authorities as an alternative for or addition to parking supply in the city centre. In this paper we present results of a survey amongst 45 major cities in E...

This report is part of a broader study that aims to identify market and regulation/policy factors (e.g. competition, consumer behaviour, access to finance, product, standards, etc.) that hamper or drive innovative activities in nine sectors of interest of the Sector Innovation Watch (biotechnology, electrical and optical equipment, automotive, spac...

En la última década, el tema de la innovación para la sostenibilidad ambiental ha acaparado los titulares de un sinnúmero de publicaciones de diversa índole. A este tipo de innovación, se le ha asociado con una gran cantidad de conceptos, incluyendo: tecnologías verdes (greentech), tecnologías limpias (cleantech), innovación ambiental (environmen¬t...

Innovation Union Index: A behavioural approach to innovation measuring and monitoring Dr.Carlos Montalvo TNO (The Netherlands) Carlos.Montalvo@tno.nl Main focus: Innovativity of methods and technics Selected topic: Contruction of new indicators Keywords: innovation union index, innovation propensity, innovation drivers Innovation is currently seen...

Innovation is currently seen as a cornerstone not only for economic development but also as an intrinsic human activity that could help to face the great challenges of human kind. Given the importance of innovation in the new European Strategy, measuring progress but also monitoring what drives innvation becomes crucial for policy development. Curr...

The overall objective of this study is to identify market and regulation/policy factors (e.g. competition, consumer behaviour, access to finance, product, standards, etc.) that hamper or drive innovative activities in the nine sectors under consideration (biotechnology, electrical and optical equipment, automotive, space and aeronautics, constructi...

Innovation is currently seen as a cornerstone not only for economic development but also as an intrinsic human activity that could help to face the great challenges of human kind. Given the importance of innovation in the new European 2020 Strategy, measuring progress but also monitoring what drives innovation becomes crucial for policy development...