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 …

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is … contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science …

firms in the European periphery. Specifically, we compare Spanish manufacturing firms which are foreign owned (and thus have …); reduce investment drastically (by 19); and reduce very substantially process innovation and information technology investment …

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of … interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France …-level characteristics across countries and sectors. We also find that the positive correlation between internationalization and innovation …

future generations to meet their own needs – is a central challenge for the 21st century. Technological innovation can play … often do not fully benefit from innovation due to their lack of market or political power to influence innovation processes …. As a result, current innovation systems fail to contribute as much as they might to meeting sustainable development goals …