Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology …

technology, opportunity costs of research limit the role induced innovation can play. Moreover, since the backstop technology …