assess the impact of these different sources on the results of the innovation process. We develop an econometric sequential … model dealing successively with the innovation decision and the nature of innovation and use recent French data coming from … the 1997 Community Innovation Survey. The main results are that innovation is not the result of isolated agents and that …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

The paper reviews the diffusion research approach to the analysis of innovations and its impact on innovation studies …. This social approach brought a new understanding of the innovation process by focusing on analysing the factors that … innovation studies (i.e. S-shaped curve rate of adoption and his categorisation of adopters) and science policy studies (i …

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …

The main objective of the paper is to analyze the local determinants of innovation in the Luxembourg metropolitan … two specific research questions. Firstly, we examine the extent to which geographic space is a determinant of innovation … for five intra-regional units based on an aggregation of municipalities. Secondly, we investigate whether innovation is …

Worker mobility across firms can enhance innovation by spreading knowledge, but such mobility may also hinder … innovation by making firms reluctant to invest in R&D. A common way that firms limit workers' mobility is with noncompete … agreements (NCAs). We examine how the legal enforceability of NCAs affects innovation, as measured by patenting, using data on …

developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has not been linked to the open innovation concept yet. In this … Innovation ; Product Market Performance …