Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the factors that influeunce the ability of Mexican public universities to generate patents. Academic patents are deserving of increasing interest as channels for the transfer of knowledge from universities to firms. Design/methodology/approach A review...

This paper analyses the performance of companies' R&D and innovation and the effects of intra- and inter-industry R&D spillover on firms' productivity in Catalonia. The paper deals simultaneously with the performance of manufacturing and service firms, with the aim of highlighting the growing...

This paper analyses whether a firm's absorptive capacity and its distance from the technological frontier affect the choice between innovation and imitation in innovative Spanish firms. From an extensive survey of 5,575 firms during the 2004-2009 period, we found two significant results. With...

Recent evidence has given insights into the complementarities between radical and incremental innovations. This paper enriches the literature by disentangling how knowledge accumulation processes affect the development of future radical innovations and their prolongation over time. Using a...