Love J. H., Roper S. and Hewitt-Dundas N. Service innovation, embeddedness and business performance: evidence from … Northern Ireland, Regional Studies. This paper explores the factors that determine innovation by service firms, and in … particular the contribution of intra- and extra-regional connectivity. Subsequently, it is examined how service firms' innovation …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about … system and innovation. It concludes by finding some consensus in the literature about the problems associated with this …

about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

innovation and international technology transfer in general.  The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous.  We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …