characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …

knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the … innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms We find that public firms in external finance dependent … in internal finance dependent industries do not have a significantly better innovation profile than matched private firms …