This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …

about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by … starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since Schumpeter. It concludes that newness, value creation and process are … time and again considered as the key-elements of innovation. Innovation, hence, may be summarized as the process of …

knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is … in many ways similar to, and reminiscent of the development of the many innovation policy tools in European countries and … regions. The first policy challenge, we refer to as "recherche sans frontières"; the second one as "innovation for local …

foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises … training is found to have a strong effect on the innovation activity. However, firms owned by female and old entrepreneurs are … less likely to get involved in innovation. In an extended model of firm growth determinants that includes innovation …