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

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 …

impede innovation. This argument, however, fails to recognize that modern family firms can benefit from capitalist … institutions that promote innovation. Using a comprehensive sample of U.S. family-owned public firms and patents for the period … from 1998 to 2010, we show that family ownership plays multiple roles in promoting innovation and its influence can be …

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 …

This paper looks at the genesis of innovation in the United States from a territorial perspective. The analysis aims to … disentangle the impact of local R&D expenditure from other contextual conditions supportive of the process of innovation …. Particular emphasis is devoted to the role of socio-economic factors and systems of innovation conditions (‘social filter …

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is … contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science …

-enhancing role of innovation and innovation policy. The analysis combines innovation variables with indicators linked to the … formation of adequate social conditions for innovation (the social filter), and spillovers for 31 Mexican states and the Mexico … results stress that, although Mexican innovation policy has been relatively well targeted in order to generate greater …