Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy … concludes that policy measures to stimulate corporate R&D and innovation activities should be expressly conceived according to …

Innovation in the European Union remains weak according to a number of key "input" indicators, especially R …'s innovation gap relative to the US results from an inappropriate industrial structure in which new firms do not play a significant … role, especially in new high-tech sectors. This view of a structural EU innovation deficit has many supporters. But it has …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by …

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …

augmented with technology. We find that R&D expenditures - fostering product innovation - have a job-creating effect, in …

In this article, we analyse the microeconomic relationship between innovation and employment, using company data from …&D can account for both product and process innovation. The existence of non constant elasticities is assessed, due to the … implications for policymakers: R&D and innovation supporting policies should be correctly tailored and monitored since the results …

One of the main objectives of the new European research and innovation policy agenda is to favour the positive … presents a literature review on the economics of research, innovation and competitiveness, focusing on the evidence available … regarding the determinants for company creation and growth and the role played by Research, Development (R&D) and innovation …

Financial constraints for young and small firms can prevent them from supporting innovation and employment creation. We … innovative activity in Europe: the Innovation Union Scoreboard and the R&D Scoreboard. With the first, we study the determinants …

The effect of the EU Research Framework Programme (FP) on European company innovation performance is analysed for the … have considered if the fund was not there. In addition, the FP programme increases collaboration with other innovation … simultaneously modelled when innovation performance is studied. To measure innovation performance, an input indicator (level of R …