by boosting the incentives for technological innovation in start-up firms, potentially creating a self …

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 …

estimation based on UK firm level data from 1998 to 2002 shows that exporters are 7.5 percent more likely to denote their … 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 …