drive innovation. …

This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

We experimentally investigate competition in innovation in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller … firms on a duopoly market, engaging in risky search investments. Successful innovation is rewarded through temporary …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation – internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, de-pending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …