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 …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

application to innovation, in an environment where an innovator (the host) repeatedly faces the same imitators (parasites), we … show that investment can take place even without patent protection, as parasites limit their imitation to preserve the … developing countries, commons' management and long-distance trade. …

behaviour is introduced. The innovation activity in the R&D sector involves knowledge externalities among skilled workers. Our … dispersion to agglomeration, innovation follows a much faster pace. As a consequence, even those who stay put in the periphery …

systematically evaluated. This paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusions for the future setup of active … a systematic evaluation of all instruments not scrutinized so far. …

In this Paper, we suggest a novel approach to programme evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a …

appropriate evaluation methodology when working with non-experimental data, we use two widely applied approaches to identify …