effect on a firm’s propensity to innovate. Collaboration with extra-regional agents is much more conducive to innovation than …This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of ….’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘science, technology and innovation’ (STI) and ‘doing, using …

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

international competitiveness - to a lack of innovative activity. In Germany the Innovationskrise (innovation crisis) combines with … for the 1990s. This paper documents the extent of this economic dilemma confronting Germany as well as the rest of Western …

achieve the goal of greater economic growth. We argue that state-supported research universities can be used to integrate …-level economic policies. There is an opportunity at research universities to combine the human capital talent available on faculties …

nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and … that departments in older, research-intensive universities score higher than departments in newer, more teaching …-oriented universities. We also find that management matters in universities. The scores, particularly with respect to provision of …

with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We find that private universities are much more likely to adopt incentive …. Adopting incentive pay is associated with about 30-40 percent more income per license. Universities with strong local …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …