The ability and willingness to innovate are recognized as being among the most important conditions for improving the performance of economically lagging regions.Regional innovation policies can help such regions to catch up, which is why the EU Commission, the EU member states and many of their...

In my research on innovative enterprise and sustainable prosperity, I use the "theory of innovative enterprise" to examine how modes of corporate finance-founder investments, private placements, initial public offerings, retained earnings, secondary stock issues, employee stock options,...

Relatively flat US productivity growth versus rising R&D expenditures is often interpreted as evidence that ideas are getting harder to find. We build a new 45-year panel tracking the universe of US firms' patenting to investigate the micro underpinnings of this conclusion, separately examining...

This study investigates the strategic drivers and performance outcomes of open innovation in Vietnamese manufacturing firms, with a particular focus on entrepreneurial orientation, proactive environmental strategy, and adaptive capacity. Grounded in the Natural Resource-Based View and Dynamic...