R&D subsidies on the knowledge-sourcing process increase firms’ innovation outcomes, thus making this policy … intervention effective in promoting innovation. By using panel data from Spanish manufacturing firms, this article presents … Spain also favor more firm innovation, measured by patent applications and new product launches. It is also documented that …

We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely … effective for promoting innovation in the medical device industry at the regional level. …

This study focuses on the role of human factors in the innovation processes of firms in four member states of the … to obtain new information related to innovation and then to integrate it with their indigenous resources. The innovation … process thus consists of the absorptive process, through which outside information is employed to enhance innovation …

In the context of China's knowledge economy, cluster-based technological innovation can promote the communication of … cluster innovation driving efficient industrial structure, applying a spatial Durbin model to Chinese provincial panel data … efficient industrial structure and technological cluster innovation under connected knowledge spillovers. These effects increase …