The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …

characteristic for their competitive environment. This is particularly the case for knowledge-intensive service providers, product …

This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German … technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …

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

, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both …

This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported …

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …