communication technologies (ICT). Against the backdrop of a weakening link between productivity and traditional innovation inputs (e …, work processes and human resource practices. More fundamentally, digitization is changing the way innovation itself is done …, opening the prospect of a long-term increase in the overall rate of innovation. Over time, this will dwarf the benefits from …

policies to bring the cost of financing innovation more in line with the level that would prevail in the absence of market …

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and medium-sized enterprises and … sense and as instruments for financing innovation. It also discusses implications of these developments for public policy …

higher levels of innovation and lower levels of secrecy. An increase in the size of the market, a reduction in the cost of … produits est associé avec davantage d'innovation et moins de protection. Une augmentation dans la taille du marché, une …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …