, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

Innovation in the European Union remains weak according to a number of key "input" indicators, especially R …'s innovation gap relative to the US results from an inappropriate industrial structure in which new firms do not play a significant … role, especially in new high-tech sectors. This view of a structural EU innovation deficit has many supporters. But it has …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

This paper investigates the innovation impact of intangibles by considering the decision of firms to invest in a … these investments are directed to. Intangibles need to be managed strategically in order to have an innovation impact and …

then use these to test some arguments that have become central in the innovation literature. In particular, we first …

European Industrial Research and Innovation Scoreboard with the fDi Markets dataset, we find supporting evidence. Increasing …