This article contributes to the literature on innovation and development by identifying the determinants of innovation … determinants of innovation to be different for industrialized and developing countries. This is supported by endogeneity tests …

The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in … developing countries. It shows that patents are not likely to support innovation in developing countries, even though their non …

Innovation is at the basis of economic development and as such, it is instrumental for developing countries. We review … the literature on innovation from the perspectives of four select branches of economics to build a conceptual framework of … innovation applicable to developing countries. The conceptual framework includes insights from the surveyed literature and …