barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …

Portugal’s export performance over the past decade has been impressive, helping to reduce external imbalances. This … comparable small European economies. Further shifting the orientation of the economy to the external sector is vital for Portugal … to focus innovation policies on raising the participation of small and medium enterprises in innovative activities. …

from collaborations arise by sharing knowledge about a cost-reducing technology. By forming collaborations, however, firms …

This paper documents that underpriced firms substitute R&D spending with share buybacks to the detriment of innovation … innovation to boost short-term profits, as the market is inefficiently slow in valuing research …

The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … medium-educated personnel. Innovating firms do not rely to the same extent on the exploration of external knowledge. Their … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … 'soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …

In this paper we study the coevolutionary dynamics of knowledge creation, diffusion and the formation of R …&D collaboration networks. Differently to previous works, knowledge is not treated as an abstract scalar variable but represented by a … portfolio of ideas that changes over time through innovations and knowledge spillovers between collaborating firms. The …

We present a class of dynamic general-equilibrium models of education, innovation and technology transfer to explain …. Innovation and human-capital accumulation appear as in-line engines of scale-invariant endogenous growth. Industries evolve … according to stochastic processes of innovation, imitation and technology adaption in the global economy. …