existing patterns of successful competition. A review of the extant literature and research about innovation and … innovation and entrepreneurship in the industry. It also sought to explore options for improving practice through interventions … which would accelerate the development of firm innovation capabilities and a culture of innovation more broadly across the …

Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … group affiliation is particularly important for innovation in industries that rely more on external funding and in groups … knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …

substitutability of knowledge in product market. This greatly reduced the effectiveness of the policy to spur innovation and limited …

existing theoretical literature on innovation and entrepreneurship. It summarizes some of the main findings of the effect of … various means of protecting intellectual property on the innovation incentives and the level of entrepreneurship activity. A … resulting prediction is that perfect protection leads to higher innovation incentives. This is puzzling in light of the …

innovation, and delays in new drug therapies available to consumers.2 Government laws and regulations indirectly affect the … innovation process through the distribution and marketing of pharmaceuticals. In contrast to other products, drugs can be …

by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute launched an effort in … Innovator Assistance Pilot ProgramSM. At the heart of this pilot program is the desire to advance productivity, innovation, and …

Growth launched its “Southern Innovation Initiative” noting that “The South’s competitiveness relies on establishing a … culture of innovation – the ability to continuously invent and bring high value products and processes to the global … marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project …

We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold … are a second threshold for innovation rejection and a memory that allows actors to take trends into account. Computer … of good targets can accelerate innovation diffusion. …

more flexibility leading to more innovation and reform. We apply our theory to business firms, transition economies, and …

account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on innovation …. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation and are …