origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a country’s institutional …

In this Paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm’s innovation process with this firm’s investment … results indicate that firms with small budgets for innovation will not invest in basic research. This occurs in the short run …

of R&D that firms do and the amount of spillover they generate; between information sharing and research coordination … same industry or in different industries. These distinctions matter because, as we show, coordination can arise without … induce full information sharing/research coordination, in which case the justification, if any, for a technology policy that …

other factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local ‘social filter’, taking also … into account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter’, good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …

effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation. We test whether the specialization of economic activity within … together complementary activities, better promotes innovation. The evidence provides considerable support for the diversity …

patent. Provided that spillovers exist in the case of unilateral revelation of know-how, it can be shown that non …