Journal goals and scope

RIC is dedicated to promoting the distribution of important scholarly work at all levels: faculty/researchers, policymakers, economic professionals and other leading intellectuals studying innovation and competitiveness both on the micro and macro levels. The Journal is interested in both theoretical and applied research with an emphasis on topics in international trade, factors conditions, demand conditions, firm strategy, structure and rivalry, human resource endowments, R&D capabilities, new technology adoption, managerial and organizational factors, models and process of innovation, innovation law and policy, innovation networks, technical change, marketing innovation, clusters and networks and other topics falling within the field of economics of innovation.

• RIC is not tied to any particular strand of theory, academic discipline, or subject of research in the field of economic science investigating the economics of innovation and competitiveness.
• RIC will endeavor to provide concise and accessible reviews on the most important technical and socio-economic factors driving information technology industries.

In pursuit of its program, RIC will try to explain what is happening in the race for global innovation advantage, explain the economic decline in the most developed economies of the 21st century, change and dynamics in the innovation and innovation policies worldwide, building innovation advantage in order to overcome barriers to innovation.

Open access

Articles are available online to a wide audience. There is no publication fee for the online open-access publication.

There is no subscription fee for the Journal's online version. The online version of this Journal is open-access. The content is freely available without charge to the user. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, as long as they cite the source.

Financing

Journal is published with the help of the Ministry of Science and Education.

Author's fees

There are no article submission/ publication fee charges for authors. 

Copyright

Copyright allows authors to protect original material. We use Creative Commons licenses when publishing: Attribution (CC BY).

Others can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work, even commercially, as long as they credit the original creation.

Subscribers are allowed to reproduce parts of the article but only with appropriate reference to the paper/ journal. Other forms of resale, derivative work, publication, or compilations as well as translations are not allowed without credit to the authors and publisher.

Authors are allowed to use their published articles for personal promotion in academic society (such as uploading the paper to academic social networks or formal databases). If authors wish to replicate parts of their paper published in RIC, they have to include the appropriate reference.