Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues … evidence of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover … spillovers from public R&D spend on research councils, and (c) no evidence of market sector spillovers from public spending on …

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 …

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …

Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …

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 …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …