This book promotes the creation of advanced knowledge-based economies driven by innovation networks and the continuous …-based industries of the Asia Pacific, and highlights research on: modes of creativity and innovation; intellectual property; the … components of national innovation systems such as firms, education and training; knowledge and technical infrastructure; and …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of … they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were not … profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing, but also to …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The … between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign-owned firms experience higher … job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment-creating effects of product innovation are larger …

This paper examines how the role of patents and utility models in innovation and economic growth varies by level of … innovation and that patentable innovations contribute to economic growth in developed countries, but not in developing. Instead … innovation and growth, controlling for other factors. Using Korean firm level data as a case study, we find that utility model …