Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … 1995-2003. The model is estimated in steps, following the logic of firms' decisions and outcomes: in the first, Ramp …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … Italian manufacturing firms conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia, which cover the period 1995-2003. Using a slightly modified … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending (rather than R …&D spending) is used to predict innovation in the CDM model. Second, we assume that a firm simultaneously innovates and chooses …

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …

The contribution made by innovation and new technologies to economic growth and welfare is largely determined by the … neglected one in the economics of innovation. This chapter, written for a handbook on innovation, provides a historical and …

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …

investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …