The effectiveness of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) as instruments of innovation policy has generated thriving … and 25 STPs from the 2009 Community Innovation Survey for Spain and a survey of STP managers respectively, we find that …

The article discusses recent advances and future challenges in innovation studies. First, it separately considers four … main strands of research, studying innovation at the organisational, systemic, sectoral and macroeconomic levels. Then … technological and institutional change; the role of demand; and the impacts of innovation on individual and collective welfare …

exogenous technological change but by repeatedly leapfrogging their competitors through product and process innovation. This … shifts the focus from the mechanical production process to the collaborative innovation process, which requires social …

quantifies the effect of binding financial constraints on the innovation propensity of Italian companies. Once provided a rich … baseline specification for innovation, I analyze the impact of financial constraints by exploiting a survey-based direct … features. My results show firms that are more likely to suffer from financial problems to have a probability of innovation that …

Innovation is currently seen as a cornerstone not only for economic development but also as an intrinsic human activity … that could help to face the great challenges of human kind. Given the importance of innovation in the new European 2020 … Strategy, measuring progress but also monitoring what drives innovation becomes crucial for policy development. Following upon …

This paper analyzes cross-country differences in innovation behavior of subsidiaries of German multinational … enterprises. The analysis is based on data from Community Innovation Survey (CIS4) and covers 16 European countries. We find … considerable differences in innovation input intensity and innovation output intensity between German subsidiaries located in …