This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the … firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and product innovation dummies, play only a minor role for domestic … exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech exports but do not rely on indigenous innovation activities. These …

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 …

The authors demonstrate a problem of innovation support by business support institutions (BSIs) operating in the market … sources of financing. The situation requires further research on the causes of such a low utilisation of BSIs’ innovation …

The aim of the study is to analyze the actual demand of SMEs from the Baltic Sea region for innovation support. The … results of the conducted study can help formulate recommendations designed to increase innovation and competitiveness of SMEs … in the Baltic Sea Region in the future. Research activities of this study include: the evaluation of innovation level of …

innovation in business has been done …

Both Canada and the United States have recently undertaken comprehensive reforms of their tax systems. In the case of … eliminate incentives such as investment tax credits. This article examines the significance for Canada of the corporate tax … that competition between Canada andthe United States is most intense and that real effective corporate tax rates probably …

of sound environmental decision making, Environment Canada and other government agencies have jointly participated in the … emissions of SO2 are still required from the USA, iii) inter-regional trading with the USA can play a major role in reducing …

plants within a region. The emissions inventories (GECOT and AIRS for the USA and RDIS for Canada) were used as the major … variation (differences in marginal costs of removal) across emission regions. Preliminary analysis using Environment Canada … 2010. Future work will investigate interregional trading, especially between the bordering states of the USA and provinces …

designed in a way that would balance the impacts on the economy with improvements in environmental quality. Environment Canada …