ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

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 …

cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …

positively and complementarily evolve only if the opportunity cost of investing in innovation is sufficiently low. We … innovation outputs. When empirical evidence confirms that this complementarity plays a key role, and consequently strong links … solely to the production of (local) public goods (social capital) or innovation inputs as independent elements of firm …