questions if innovation has truly been the main driver of those instruments. It provides a brief overview on the intersections … of politics, economics, innovation and institutions as well as the main choices, incentives and alliances of the … Brazilian government, which are illustrated by the Innovation Law, PITCE, PDP and campaign financing of President Lula's 2002 …

The literature on R&D contests implicitly assumes that contestants submit their innovation regardless of its value …

This paper aims to seek what type of innovation and to estimate the impact of social capital on the innovation in the … than half of respondents are innovative producers. Innovation of product and organizational are the important types of … innovation in the bamboo handicraft. Social capital, measured by an index of trust significantly influences the innovation index …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

keeping the peace between users of old and new technologies are allowed to call the shots, innovation and the modern world is …

of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining … productivity of R&D resources in generating innovation (patenting) and productivity (TFP). While we find that knowledge diffusion …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

three issues such as incentives for innovation, preference based price discrimination, and incentives for information …