, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …

potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …

towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …

communication technologies (ICT). Against the backdrop of a weakening link between productivity and traditional innovation inputs (e …, work processes and human resource practices. More fundamentally, digitization is changing the way innovation itself is done …, opening the prospect of a long-term increase in the overall rate of innovation. Over time, this will dwarf the benefits from …

policies to bring the cost of financing innovation more in line with the level that would prevail in the absence of market …

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and medium-sized enterprises and … sense and as instruments for financing innovation. It also discusses implications of these developments for public policy …