capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non …

Using a game theoretical model on firms' simultaneous investments in product and process innovation, we deduct and … and in independently competing firms. We use Community Innovation Survey data on Italian manufacturing firms. Theoretical …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment …

of intermediation in innovation. …

This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical … routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices …&D, innovation, technological diffusion and productivity growth. North American results find consistently strong and negative impacts …

By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We …

The second European Innovation Survey (CIS-2) provides information about different modes of interactions between … firms innovation activities as well as a GHK triprobit model to explore the role of firm and industry characteristics on …