Pharmaceuticals and life sciences: Role of competitive intelligence in innovation

This chapter goal is to analyze the concepts of innovation, knowledge and competitive intelligence (CI). Besides these concepts, the focus will be on the role of innovation profiles defined by Sousa (2009, 2013). The innovation profiles include the creation, capture, organization, and integration of knowledge into the innovation process. The CI variable will be analyzed demonstrating the potential for creating a context of competition for companies. A case study is presented about the pharmaceutical (pharma) industry with the application of the concepts of competitive intelligence, knowledge, and innovation to a real context. Keywords: Competitive Intelligence, Innovation, Organization, Knowledge, Knowledge Profiles, Pharma industry.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

National innovation system dynamics in East Central Europe, the Baltic Countries and Russia

Here, the structure and dynamics of national innovation systems are explored to produce a comprehensive picture of the current, as well as the past, performance of the countries of East Central Europe, the Baltic countries and Russia vis-à-vis their competiveness and innovative capabilities. The results highlight the importance of political and economic freedom, science and education for promoting innovation. According to the principal component analyses, the best performing countries of the East Central Europe and the Baltic countries, in terms of their national innovation systems, have developed rapidly after the disintegration of the Soviet bloc and compare well in global rankings of innovative capabilities and competitiveness with standings above the countries of Latin America and South-East Asia. The countries under closer examination here that are members of the EU seem to be in a better position compared to the non-EU member countries. Thus, most of the countries in East Central Europe and the Baltic countries have been able to catch up with the global leaders during the analysed time period (1992–2008). However, this kind of development is yet to manifest in Russia