knowledge through the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program. Our conceptual framework assumes the nature of an …

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

knowledge spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy … technologies or sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by …

to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R …

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 …

It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work … suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using … CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model …

We develop a composite indicator measuring the performance of national innovation systems. The indicator takes into … assessment of preconditions for innovation by managers. We apply the methodology to a set of 17 industrialized countries on a …, social capital, trust and science and technology to achieve an assessment of a country's social climate for innovation. After …