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 …

Innovation is a crucial driver of urban and regional economic success. Innovative cities and regions tend to grow … small body of innovators gain relative to others, innovation may lead to inequality. The evidence on this point is … first comparative evidence on the link between innovation and inequality in a continental perspective. Using micro data from …

accessing foreign markets. Our key innovation in this paper is to incorporate the endogenous effects of accession into an …

errors of returns under serial correlation. The repeat sales methodology is generally used to construct an index of prices or …

A few recent contributions have claimed that in high-tech industries—where innovation is often cumulative and products … royalty stacking problem to exist: (a) innovation must be cumulative, so that the patents are complementary; (b) there must be …

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 …

We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …