This paper analyses the current internationalisation of innovation activities and identifies the main drivers for the …-2005. Our results show that the internationalisation of innovation is mainly due to an intensified co-operation between EU … countries and joint membership in the EU are also factors that considerably spur overseas innovation activity. …

managing innovation. Firms with different knowledge stocks attempt to improve their economic performance by engaging in radical … or incremental innovation activities and through partnerships and networking with other firms. In trying to vary and …, underlining the importance of innovation and learning. …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

This Paper develops a framework for testing discrete complementarities in innovation policy using European data on … obstacles to innovation. We propose a discrete test of supermodularity in innovation policy leading to a number of inequality … constraints. We apply our test to two types of innovation decisions: to innovate or not, and if so, by how much. We find that …