Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude … toward uncertainty.Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous.An entrepreneur, who owns …'s willingness to work with the uncertain technology.The general equilibrium setting allows us to explore the impact of innovation on …

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical … creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

Should inputs such as bank finance affect innovation in BRICS vs. developed countries similarly? Arguably these … and Tobit to a sample of 22 countries, we show how innovation (measured patents, scientific publications and high …

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …