Human capital, as reflected in education levels and skills, and innovation is an important engine of economic growth …. The Caribbean is deficient in both: lower than expected GDP growth rates are accompanied by relatively low innovation at … paper exploits firm-level data covering 13 Caribbean countries to examine the extent to which innovation, a key driver of …

This paper aims to analyze the impact of corruption on firm innovation in Portugal, using data from the World Bank … endogeneity in the corruption variable. Our results show that corruption fosters innovation in Portugal, regardless of the … dependent variable we use to measure innovation. We have also analyzed the effect of corruption on innovation in foreign and …

shaping the innovation performance of the EU nations. The objects of the empirical research are the EU member states for the … investigated innovation indicators-technological, non-technological, and commercial ones. The outcomes of this study highlight the … most critical areas where EU member states could focus to improve their national innovation performance and may assist …

Based on ß and o convergence analysis, we find a high persistence of innovation gaps for international innovation …

the world market is supported by the creation of innovation (knowledge-based economy), especially from an Industry 4 … analysis of changes in innovativeness and competitiveness of the V4 economies over a period of 5 years. The Global Innovation … Index (GII) shows the level of innovation of most countries in the world. Reports publishing GII were established thanks to …

of enhanced entrepreneurial innovation. To this end, a literature review was carried out in order to develop a research … framework with factors related to imitation predicting entrepreneurial innovation. Moreover, managerial skills and … entrepreneurial skills were incorporated as predictors of entrepreneurial innovation. In this respect, a structured questionnaire was …

innovation and, thus, economic growth. During the past three decades, countries have experimented with some of these new …

Innovation, in contemporary times, has been established as the lynchpin of growth and national competitive advantage … among countries. Supranational and national resources have jointly combined to create sound innovation strategies and … diffusion policies for member states in recent times. However, there is the question of whether increased innovation translates …

intensity (that is, the efficiency with which innovation funds are managed), availability of technology, knowledge about new … vital in addressing this problem. Innovation, a necessary condition for competitiveness, is a key channel through which the … private sector can help to stimulate growth. An analysis of innovation at the firm level for Caribbean manufacturing and …