, this paper examines the occurrence of IP litigation cases in Belgian firms using the 2013 Community Innovation Survey with … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation … imitation and incremental innovation. Our results indicate that when controlling for firms’ IP portfolio, the composition of …

This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported … does not uncover any systematic misallocation of public funding for the countries under review. -- Innovation ; Policy …

It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work … suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using … CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both … obtained, we find superiority for national funding. -- Subsidies ; Innovation ; Policy Evaluation ; Treatment Effects …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …