This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

advance the notion of quadic patent family, defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications at the European … Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the national patent office of a … a sample of 38 countries. Our results indicate that quadic patent applications are driven by the need for accessing …

This paper introduces dynamics in the RD to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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

Non-R&D innovation is a common economic phenomenon, though R&D has been the central focus of policy making and … scholarly research in the field of innovation. An analysis of the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-3) results for …. In contrast, firms that engage in product innovation, find clients, universities and research institutions an important …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …

In this paper, a wide range of innovation indicators are analysed in order to describe the innovation behaviour of … manufacturing firms in LAC using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as … understand the main characteristics of innovative firms and to gather new evidence with regard to the nature of the innovation …

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper …