Fontana, Roberto; Nuvolari, Alessandro; Shimitzu, Hiroshi; … - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between Schumpeterian patterns of innovation and the generation of breakthrough inventions. Our data source for breakthrough inventions is the “R&D 100 awards” competition organized each year by the magazine Research & Development. Since 1963, this...