‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do …, 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. …

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 …

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

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

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 … wind power using patent data from OECD countries from 1994 to 2005. We distinguish between the impact of demand … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …