establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …

innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs …This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … estimating various knowledge production functions suggest an inverse u-shaped relationship. The exchange of R&D personnel fosters …

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company … leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical …

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …