the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

rival market. We show that this strategic effect dominates the usual "innovation for buyout effect" when the entrant …'s bargaining power is below a threshold. Allowing for acquisitions may improve the direction of innovation of each of the players …

&D-oriented firms versus all others - is somewhat limited. In particular, non-R&D innovation activity should be treated as an important … engaged in non-R&D innovation grow in a less risky and costly way than R&D innovators, and that a young firm's decision … whether to engage in R&D for the purpose of innovation and growth can therefore usefully be understood as being driven by a …

Notwithstanding a recent upsurge in interest in knowledge intermediaries and their roles in innovation and … analyzing the cooperative behavior of knowledge intermediaries in innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems. …