Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net … contribution of product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product …

analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …

We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these … maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation …

We construct a model of the product cycle featuring endogenous innovation and endogenous technology transfer …

We develop a multi-country, dynamic general equilibrium model of product innovation and international trade to study …

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this …-product firms live forever, and the large firms invest in innovation in order to enlarge their product spans. All firms export. I … show that an increase in the competitiveness of foreign firms can increase or reduce innovation efforts of a large multi …