strengthened where spillovers also have positive effects. This conclusion is based on the supermodularity of the spillover process …

complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the …

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

complementarity or substitutability. In addition, and to our knowledge novel, we propose a measure of concordance (or proximity …This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and …

research grants than for development grants. We also find cross-scheme effects that may arise due to complementarity between …

research grants than for development grants. We also find cross-scheme effects that may arise due to complementarity between …

the relation between the introduction of innovation and subsequent firm growth in terms of sales. Recent contributions … examining the returns to innovation on firm performance have stressed the need of going beyond the analysis of the "average … adopt quantile treatment effects (QTE) which allow to estimate the effect of the introduction of innovation by comparing …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

levels of innovation. The paper also shows that the optimal incentive contract for innovative employees has an option …

This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …