national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …

2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

California law that make non-compete agreements unenforceable. Consistent with our model of innovation, mobility rates outside of …

-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …

relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … of the relationship are discussed. For the empirical analysis we use Swedish firm-level innovation survey data covering …

whole process from invention to innovation and diffusion in the market is studied. The analysis takes its starting point in …