The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries evolution has witnessed major progress in several areas …. Contributions at the empirical, appreciative, econometric and modelling levels have greater advanced our understanding of innovation … are required for a better understanding of the relationship between innovation and the evolution of industries: the …

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … the likelihood of having both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on …