(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available … so, we investigate possible differences in the innovation-cash flow link between high-tech firms and all exporters …, creation and exploitation innovation activities, persistent and non-persistent exporters. Applying a modified Euler model and …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have …

sense that they have only given a partial picture. One obvious example is that discus¬sions of the role of innovation and … ignored the high degree of innovation and entrepreneurship within many incumbent companies. The purpose of this paper is to … contribute to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy. …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

This paper analyses the persistency in innovation behaviour of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation … Transition Probability Matrix, we found evidence of (unconditional) state dependence in all types of innovation, with product …