The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a; production function; of innovation for European regions …

framework of S&T and innovation policy making. Foresight also addresses broad social and economic issues along with conventional …

The aim of this paper is to estimate the effect of research externalities across space, in generating innovation. We do … would increase the innovation of the region itself by 80-90%. Given the small size and the limited range of diffusion, we …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …

We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …

This chapter aims to provide a review of the literature on innovation in services and to focus on the analytical … strategies carried out in order to fill in the innovation gap in the service economy (i.e. the difference between what the … traditional innovation indicators are capable of capturing, and the reality of innovation activities undertaken in a given economy …

economies and, in light of the predictions of endogenous growth models, suggests that technological innovation is the only way … of innovation policies by studying a broad set of Science and Technology (S&T) indicators for the BICs, trying in this …

firms. Specifically, we explore the impact of vertical R&D cooperation on firms' process innovation, outputs, market prices … integrated industry. Contribution & Value Added: Firms' process innovation benefits from the vertical integration of the industry …

recipients' investment is less sensitive to internal liquidity. -- Research and development ; liquidity constraints ; innovation …