This paper reviews various approaches to measuring business innovation from the angle of capturing social innovations and offers several methodological and policy conclusions. First, the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) indicators in principle could be useful in settings where the dominant mode...

Innovative public procurement has been increasingly considered as a form of public support to innovative activities from both scholars and policy makers. Economic historians suggested an even more fundamental role for procurement in setting the pace of technological change, reporting how...

This paper reviews various approaches to measuring business innovation from the angle of capturing social innovations and offers several methodological and policy conclusions. First, the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) indicators in principle could be useful in settings where the dominant mode...

This paper uses the staggered changes of R&D tax credits across U.S. states and over time as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the impact of innovation on corporate liquidity. By generating plausibly independent variation in firms' incentive to invest in R&D, we are able to assess the...

The article analyzes the ways of making investment decisions. The use of net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) are criticized. Describes the indicator « the indicator of the speed of specific increment in value» (IS). The numerical example, proposed in the form of a...

В статье рассматриваются инновационный потенциал региона, возможности предоставления государственной поддержки субъектам малого бизнеса на мезоуровне....