more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

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, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

of innovation. …

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …

Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …

Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory-based insights. …

-tech sectors. This outcome means that corporate R&D investment is more effective in the high-tech sectors and this may need to be …, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity gains; technological change embodied in gross investment is of …