to stimulate innovation and generate employment. We investigate this question based on a unique dataset of Ecuadorian … firms' importing activities lead to product innovation, increase firms' product scope, reduce production costs and create …

. Innovation is a major driver of growth and its relationship with inequalities in income and opportunities raises some important … policy questions: Do innovation and the resulting technological change necessarily lead to increased inequalities? Do … policies aimed at supporting innovation foster inequalities? To what extent can innovation be mobilised to improve the life …

efforts to improve the measurement of technological and non-technological forms of business innovation, with particular focus … robustness of the overall framework for measuring innovation as proposed in the OECD/Eurostat Oslo Manual. It identifies a number … definition of innovation and innovation activities. It also identifies a range of design concepts based on an informal …

Facilitating the mobilisation, sharing, or exchange of patents is increasingly important to promote innovation in this … globalised and well-networked world, where the circulation of ideas and technologies is essential to innovation. In the context … of open innovation, patents are expected to play a role as a means for transferring ideas and technologies from one …

The increasing importance of licensing for innovation is supported by ample anecdotal evidence. However, statistics on … des licences de brevets pour l’innovation est attestée par nombre d’anecdotes. Cependant, les statistiques sur ce domaine …