This study explores the characteristics and determinants of innovation of exceptionally innovative small and medium sized UK enterprises. The focus is placed on 'serial' innovators, defined as independent companies with a persistent unusually high frequency of innovations over time. The aim of...

In this paper we estimate the importance of local labour structure in the spread of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic. We build a unique data set across 6,700 neighbourhoods in England that allows us to distinguish between people living (residents) and people working (workers) in a...