innovation framework. …

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …

need repair than a new one superseding it has been invented. The Soviet economy, in contrast, did not stress innovation, by … future?" This book is a detailed study of the role of innovation in Soviet industry. While focusing on this specific factor … within the socialist economic structure, then examines their individual effects on the overall process of innovation. With …

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

significant advances in understanding the determinants and consequences of innovation, until recently they have paid little … attention to how innovation functions as an economic process. This book examines the nature and workings of markets for …

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