Innovation in the European Union remains weak and there are relatively few signs of progress. In this policy …

This paper analyzes the choice between different innovation activities of a firm. In particular, we study the … technology acquisition decision of the firm, i.e. its technology BUY decision as part of the firm's innovation strategy. We take …

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

European Union policymakers have in principle put innovation at the heart of competitiveness, in particular in the … Europe 2020 strategy. But in merger control, assessments of the innovation effects of mergers are inadequate, even though … capability to innovate. EU merger control rules include scope for assessing the innovation effects of mergers, but in practice …