, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

innovation ecosystems and build education, skills and social capital. …

&D investors in the performance of publicly funded R&D consortia (in terms of number of patents and publications). Using a unique … R&D leaders hinders the innovative performance of the funded projects, both in terms of patents and publications. In … design of innovation policies aimed at R&D collaboration and technology diffusion. …

by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … to patent more, and government support also appears to matter. Exterior design patents are associated with different firm …China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity …

patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry …

. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …