ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …

This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …

positively and complementarily evolve only if the opportunity cost of investing in innovation is sufficiently low. We … innovation outputs. When empirical evidence confirms that this complementarity plays a key role, and consequently strong links … solely to the production of (local) public goods (social capital) or innovation inputs as independent elements of firm …