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 …

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …

Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical … creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

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

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …

This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …

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