This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on …

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the … innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms We find that public firms in external finance dependent … in internal finance dependent industries do not have a significantly better innovation profile than matched private firms …

externalities and their impact on regional innovation. We examine MSA-level patent data during the period 1975-2000 and find that … innovation output is higher in regions where large and small firms coexist. The finding is robust to across-region as well as …

contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non …

innovation output as measured by patent applications. We first estimate a long-run cointegration relation using recently … developed tests and panel estimation techniques. We find that the stock of knowledge of a country, it’s R&D resources and the … stock of international knowledge move together in the long run. Then, imposing this long-run relation across variables we …

depends upon the relative strength of knowledge diffusion and increasing dominance. The first effect enhances challengers … relevant knowledge that had diffused through the industry. …