We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …

article is dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. In particular, it … Probit models) and non-parametrical regression trees on the results of the first community innovation survey in Tunisia. We … find that the innovation behavior of the three categories of firms is strongly contrasted. Our results show firms that …

-1999, suggesting that academic research was becoming more important to innovation in the 1990s. However, the volume of academic …

This paper examines the determinants of innovation amongst small and medium enterprises in the Malaysian manufacturing … not an important determinant of innovation. Small-sized firms with more employees are more likely to innovate. Medium …

their effects on innovation, several merger proposals have been challenged due to their adverse innovation effects. In a … desirability of merger may depend on the effectiveness of the patent system and the cost of innovation. …

of innovation as well as correlative data that show a negative correlation between income inequality and levels of … innovativeness. Our two models suggest that unequal access to problems slows innovation by reducing the level and variety of human … capital applied to problems. More interestingly, both models show that the rate of innovation decline becomes much more …

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …

technology sectors. Whilst conventional regression estimators show that the stock market does recognise efforts at innovation …, quantile regression analysis adds a new dimension to the literature, suggesting that the influence of innovation on market …