on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

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 services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …

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 …

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 …

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …