Economists studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms …' profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the …

innovation. As its name suggests, creative intelligence excludes imitation. Therefore, firstly, it requires an important … but insufficient condition to assure innovation. Indeed, two other factors are necessary for that: the patent, as a form … of protection of intellectual property rights, and the human capital (and thus the education). The resulting innovation …