The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … sources, lack of skilled personnel, lack of cooperation opportunities and lack of information on technology or markets). The …

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the principle reasons for such an assertion is that they give firms greater … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as …

innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …. This shifts economic activity towards firms specializing in process and product innovation and triggers entry of new start …

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …

Northern trade liberalization reduces the rate of innovation, increases Northern unemployment, and reduces both Northern and …