Obtaining indicators on innovation activities of firms has been a challenge in economic research for a long time. The … throughputs in the innovation process. Output measurement of innovation has strongly been relying on survey data such as the … Community Innovation Survey (CIS), but suffers from several short-comings typical to sample surveys, including incomplete …

-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 …

Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …