The paper adds to the scattered empirical evidence on the role of obstacles to innovation in a three-fold way. First …, we correct for the usual sample selection bias by filtering out firms not interested in innovation from 'potential … financing conditions in determining firms' innovation failures. This evidence puts much of the latest hype on finance in …

innovation to observe the influence of firm size and of market concentration on innovative activities, and to interrogate the … differences in influences of innovation determinants in different size classes and competition statuses. Our analysis reveals that … employment increases the likelihood of R&D and product innovation, and its influence on R&D expenditures is positive but at less …

The labour productivity impact of innovation of manufacturing firms in Bangladesh and Pakistan, a highly neglected … data conducted in 2006. To achieve this end, we apply the Cobb-Douglas production function, augmented with innovation … its determinants, innovation output to R&D, and productivity to innovation output - and in a two-equation system …

includes the Zhongguancun Science Park, was effective in terms of innovation and economic performance. We use a dataset of 500 … manufacturing firms that results from a merger of the 2007 nation-wide innovation survey and the Annual Survey of Industrial … for innovative activities only the non-state- or collectively-owned domestic firms invested more in innovation than the …

The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond … include fostering integration and interaction among the diverse actors engaged in innovation networks and working on … technological, organisational and institutional innovation. Further, the study identified various organisational arrangements of …