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 … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …

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 …

promotion. In this paper, we assess one popular justification for feed-in tariffs, i.e., induced innovation as a positive … spillover externality. Based on regressions with a time-technology fixed effect negative binomial model, we find that innovation …

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and … highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the innovation. We characterize the equilibrium behavior, outcomes and …

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 …

own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …