incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission’s claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …

innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional “trapped factor” effect. Starting …

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …