set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

one quarter of microenterprises are found to be engaging in innovation, with marketing innovations the most common. As …Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …