innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and economic growth in the European Union. We … identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into economic growth. In an empirical … investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance is conducive to economic …

new product sales as a percentage of total sales or engage in R&D or collaborative innovation activities in China are more …Based on a survey adapted from the Fourth European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-4), this study finds that, in the … changing manufacturing environment of Guangdong province in China, Hong Kong-owned businesses that generate a higher share in …

We analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary … nanotechnology development in China has been primarily promoted by the public sector but not driven by industry and market force …. This finding implies that developing countries such as China with public research capacity and commitment to technological …

After joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), China witnessed a major inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI …). Many famous automobile firms of developed countries were attracted to invest in China to cooperate with domestic firms … interrelationships between, innovation input and innovation output, and in particular whether FDI had any influence on these two aspects …

This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late … industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on recent developments in applied international … trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …

relationship with propensity. The analysis is based on innovation survey data on manufacturing firms from Jiangsu province of China …