The paper employs cross country regression analysis to estimate the effect of democracy and income inequality, adjusting for the level of income and other variables, on country innovation. It finds that both of these variables are of consequence for innovation. Different countries innovate at...

Cross-country regressions on the new creativitydata provided by the World Economic Forum are used to examine the effects ofcreativity and its components on export performance. A basic framework foranalysis is proposed and consists of three distinctive paradigms: (1) exportpromotion is an...

The paper employs cross country regression analysis to estimate the effect of democracy and income inequality, adjusting for the level of income and other variables, on country innovation. It finds that both of these variables are of consequence for innovation. Different countries innovate at...