, showing how barriers to innovation and limiting steps within the R&D process are changing as a result of bioinformatics. …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

This paper compares several innovation surveys from the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEECs) with the first … EU innovation survey. Based on the innovation survey data it discusses the changes in the innovation activities in … in innovation activities come from differences in development levels. Similarities in innovation activities come from a …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …

innovation at the sectoral level. Despite considerable interest in David and Foray's (1995) work on the codification of knowledge … and the changing nature of innovation due to the use of information and communication technologies, there are relatively … few empirical studies that probe the role of codified sources of information in the innovation process. Our goal is to …

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …