This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new … features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … of firms engage in research activities and/or apply for patents; productivity, innovation and research are endogenously …

This paper investigates the impact of small world properties and the size of largest component on innovation …-world structure benefits innovation but it is limited to a special range after which the effects inversed and shorter path length … always correlates with increased innovation output. Our findings extend the current literature and they can be implicated for …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be more profitable than fixed-fee licensing …

This study explores the impact of governmental support policies on the innovation of SMEs in the regional strategic … SMEs in the regional industries in Korea. The innovation of SMEs is measured by technological innovation: patent, utility … the innovation of SMEs, this study reviews the literature concerning the innovation and the governmental support policies …

The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …