find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their …

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This … article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight … manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …

for innovation. The survey also allows analysis of the incidence of innovation in micro and small firms, which have … traditionally been overlooked in the study of innovation, despite these firms comprising the majority of firms in developing …"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

negative relationship between the concentration of innovation portfolios and performance: countries that are the most …

the empirical relationship between economic development and (1) inside-the-frontier-innovation as reflected by the …-the-frontier innovation as reflected in patents. The data suggest, unsurprisingly, that inside-the-frontier innovation is more common among … changes in the industrial composition of exports. The authors use a simple model of innovation and imitation to test the …

include measures of innovation outcomes as well as variables related to innovation effort. The main indicator of innovation … outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and … of innovation outputs and inputs by looking at the over-time behavior of the relevant series and comparing the …

do so through an explorative survey of 40 firms from three innovative sectors: high-tech manufacturing industries … locating their innovative activities in Singapore, suggesting that the relationship between innovation and efficiency is … sector than to the KIBS sector. Another interesting difference is that while competition in high-tech innovation tends to be …