Executive Summary Innovation is highly important to the competitiveness and productivity levels of advanced capitalist economies. It has long been recognized that innovation is a key motor of economic change, as it stimulates intense forms of competition. New products command a premium price, and as others seek to replicate those innovations to improve their own products, those innovations diffuse widely into the economy, increasing general well-being. Innovation is partly about new products, but more importantly, …showed first 75 words of 2691 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2691 total…to firms about other services available which may be of value Exchanging experiences between firms, and helping weaker firms learn from exemplars, and Learning about innovation as a business process to improve their advisories capacity. 8 References Burke, Alexander (1991, December). Business Support Systems: pgs 45-55. Evans, J. S. (1999, May). Getting the most out of your Business: pgs 22-25. Schneider, Sharon (1997, September). U.K. Statistics and the Economy: pgs 120-126 Thomas, Beverly (1994, June). Innovative Businesses: Pgs 10-26