Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, this paper investigates the determinants of Ramp;D investment at the level of the firm. While finding further support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, this study also tests...

This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal Ramp;D activities and at the acquisition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...

We investigate the scientific productivity of Italian academic inventors, namely academic researchers designated as inventors on patent applications to the European Patent Office, 1978-1999. We use a novel longitudinal data set comprising 299 academic inventors, and we match them with an equal...

We define international technological specialisation (ITS) as the technological performance of a country in a specific technology relative to its overall international technological performance. This paper uses patent applications and patent citations at the European Patent Office for five...