This patents & licensing study provides a broad overview of the most recent patterns of technological specialisation at the level of European countries and other parts of the world. The analysis used a set of patent-based indicators, a survey on licensing behaviour of European firms and...

The relationship between the presence of nationalscientific capabilities and technological productivity is examined. The degreeto which science-technology relatedness is positively associated withtechnological performance when scientific capabilities are brought into theequation is also...

In this paper, we demonstrate how regional economic policies to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation, can lead to successes. More specifically, through a detailed theoretical and empirical analysis, we discuss the critical ingredients that can lead to regional innovation and economic...

We evaluate the impact of basic research on pharmaceutical firms' technological performance, distinguishing between internal basic research and the exploitation of external basic research findings. We find that firms increase their performance by engaging more in internal basic research, in...