particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the economy. Particular … specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These two countries have been …

imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that if innovation firms can commit to long … contracts, there is too little innovation and too much imitation in equilibrium. Our model is tractable and allows us to analyze … welfare effects of various policies in the limited commitment case. We find that subsidizing innovation and taxing imitation …

This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on …

paper, we analyze a two-stage innovation game between one incumbent and a large number of entrants. In the first stage … innovation. In the second stage, successful entrants bid to be acquired by the incumbent. We assume that entrants cannot survive …&D approaches than the incumbent and are more likely to generate the highest value innovation. Thus, the need of entrants to be …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … spillovers from the local milieu. Measuring potential knowledge spillover by access to knowledge intensive services, the … estimation results produce strong evidence of differences in the capacity to benefit from external knowledge among persistent …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non …