This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …

innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …

the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …

The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on … the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the … industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world …

changing and with it challenges and opportunities to control the disease. Innovation in a variety of areas such as improved … to respond to the changing public health challenge. This paper reviews theoretical approaches to innovation of direct … relevance to the case and examines what theoretical framework is useful to look at the problem of innovation in public health in …