The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries evolution has witnessed major progress in several areas …. Contributions at the empirical, appreciative, econometric and modelling levels have greater advanced our understanding of innovation … are required for a better understanding of the relationship between innovation and the evolution of industries: the …

literature on firm's boundaries and sectoral systems of innovation, we propose industry-specific variables for pharmaceuticals …

, mainly on concentration and technical change and innovation. It has also shown that the consequences of policies may …

Innovation is widely acknowledged as one of the main forces driving economic growth. However, despite our significant … knowledge of the technological determinants of innovation processes, an adequate understanding of demand side factors is still … lacking. This paper aims to survey the literature on the influence of demand upon innovation. Although theories and empirical …

The idea that innovation leads to positive economic performance has become a sort of truism in recent years. However … relationship between performance and innovation at the level of design teams, projects, firms, networks, industries, and countries … the relationship between innovation and performance. It builds upon an extensive review of contributions in economics …

the dynamic are different depending on the kind of innovation. The above mechanisms may guarantee a match between … suppliers and adopters and foster the innovation diffusion. Nevertheless, it may occur that when an innovation occurs in one of … the two industries and the ‘match’ is disrupted it needs time to be re-established, and innovation diffusion may slow down …