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. …

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

); reduce investment drastically (by 19); and reduce very substantially process innovation and information technology investment …

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …

and technology. Indian innovation hubs also generate positive knowledge spillovers to other regions. …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 …

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence … economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a …