about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net … contribution of product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product …

decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about … system and innovation. It concludes by finding some consensus in the literature about the problems associated with this …

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …