This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical … routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices …&D, innovation, technological diffusion and productivity growth. North American results find consistently strong and negative impacts …

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …

countries (LDCs). It starts by discussing the consequences of IP enforcement in LDCs for global innovation and welfare in poorer …

dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both .carbon taxes. and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …

environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …

Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We … others, measures of patent quality and technological fit with each potential destination. We find that superstar top 1 …