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

EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database PATSTAT. Based on the final dataset, covering about 1,700 world’s top corporate … R&D investors and their patenting activity, we find that about one-fifth focus their patent-relevant R&D activity in …-based technological advantages to expand their market penetration (HBE strategy). With patent data from the late 2010s, we find a further …

innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

of the contributions of different innovation linkages to innovation deserves more attention. Are the different innovation … linkages equally complementary to research inputs in fostering innovation? This paper addresses the contributions of different … innovation linkages to innovation, across two different measures of innovation. We find that a broader index of innovation …

, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy …Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves … eliminates useful information, suggesting that all of the observable signals about corporate innovation should be included in …

development of these countries. This paper aims to show the differences in innovation patterns among manufacturing firms operating … into account innovation inputs, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with business … partners, innovation outputs and international competitiveness. The sample consisted of 358 firms operating in both low and …

Given the economic, societal and environmental relevance of innovation, this paper contrasts various models of … innovation, compares how innovation is understood in mainstream economics and evolutionary economics of innovation and juxtaposes … states. innovation performance, it argues that the science-push model of innovation is still highly influential in the EC STI …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the … degree of litigiousness and the density of patent thickets negatively affect the likelihood of firms entering new TDs. Across …

Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …

otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural model of initial and follow-on innovation to determine the effects of such … a shift in disclosure on overall welfare in industries characterized by cumulative innovation. We find that while … significant decline in follow-on innovation. …