This paper examines the diversity of linkages of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance for a … with a science linkage -which can be of various sorts- have superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to …

innovation activity of firms. Firstly, it summarizes the evolution of productivity, competitiveness, firms' strategies and the … state of innovation. A slowdown in productivity growth and increasing revealed difficulties in some world markets are real …, and the weakness of innovation may be a reason. The paper then quantifies some of the links between innovation …

importance of publicly available information for the innovation process of the firm. Appropriability is defined as the …

While the impact of M&A on R&D and innovation examined at the aggregate level left inconclusive evidence, we find that …