Since the year 2000, innovation and the path towards a “knowledge-based” economy have become prominent concepts in the … matter, very little is known about the ability to translate innovation into regional growth in territories with geographical … disadvantages. The present paper discusses the intensified emphasis of the European policy approach towards innovation and its …

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

much of the cumulative innovation literature. When the research abilities of the firms differ, either the high ability firm …

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …

innovation as having a ‘high’ or ‘very high’ environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more … likely, all things equal, to report that their firm’s innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with …

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted …