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 …

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

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … the likelihood of having both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on …

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

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

policies to bring the cost of financing innovation more in line with the level that would prevail in the absence of market …

policies to bring the cost of financing innovation more in line with the level that would prevail in the absence of market …