This article analyzes, empirically, the link between public procurement and innovation activities by taking into … applications for 24 countries over the period 1995-2012, we test the impact of public procurement on innovation activities and … patenting is positively affected by the public procurement while a high degree of import penetration reduces the innovation …

not as well received on the stock market. -- Distance to frontier ; Strategy ; Market value ; Innovation ; Firm Growth …

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only … the returns to innovation are highly skewed and that growth rates distributions are heavy-tailed, it may be misleading to …, we observe that innovation is of crucial importance for a handful of "superstar" fast-growth firms. We also discuss …

explaining the why of a certain innovation instead of another. We empirically test this theory in the telecommunication switches … industry. We consider innovation as a new alignment of needs and opportunities, where markets and technology are not the …