addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus on four important aspects, namely: (i) the role of competition and …

branches per capita, and (3) the intensity of competition level. Access to independent banks and bank branches has a stronger …

selection environment in the future. We focus upon the competition aspect from a Schumpeterian view, in order to draw out the … questions, such as whether competition exists amongst universities and if so, what are the major trends and future outcomes of …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge are interrelated. Yet, a comprehensive … understanding is still lacking concerning the interface of all of those variables: knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship and … commercialization through innovation, and the role of the entrepreneur in the growth process. The policy implications of recent research …

in a quasi-temporal setting of monopolistic competition. The rate at which a firm innovates, according to a firm … consistent with the model. First, the modeled innovation process imply a persistent distribution of heterogeneous firms. Second …-dependent stochastic innovation process. …