This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

appear to be vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between small and large firms …, and between the firms that operate in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in small firms benefits from the … incentive for innovation among the sampled companies seems to be the ownership of a firm's stocks by employees and/or managers …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data on the Dutch manufacturing sector. The focus of the research is whether M …&A affect corporate innovation strategies, favouring in-house R&D and innovation expenses versus external technological sourcing …. The results show that M&A activities have a positive and significant impact on innovation investments by firms, and …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …