less likely to get involved in innovation. In an extended model of firm growth determinants that includes innovation … foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises … training is found to have a strong effect on the innovation activity. However, firms owned by female and old entrepreneurs are …

in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …

international business community is becoming increasingly concerned about the sustainability of its long term growth based on … relatively low growth at the high end of the market in comparison to rising demand amongst lower income groups, located primarily … in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could …

Innovation is a multilevel phenomenon. Not only characteristics of firms but also environment within which firms … developing countries, we estimate a multilevel model of innovation that integrates explanatory factors at different levels of the …

We show that the credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to … an error correction model including China and Australia. This causes negative growth effects in poor developing countries …. The reduced growth has a direct or indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth …

20th Century to keep pace with rapid population growth. In a third section, we replace the word "population" in the above … cited Malthus' quote with "consumption" and illustrate what this might imply for global world growth and Europe's place in … knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is …

innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We … identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical … growth and that social capital affects growth indirectly by fostering innovation. Our estimates suggest that there is only a …

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth …

In this paper we show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region we … speed up growth. The results also show a strong positive effect of reductions in the cost of making new connections. This … has a significant impact on both the steady state growth rate and on transitional growth, while significantly reducing the …