potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We … discuss the effects of standard setting activities by large, often public, procurers on innovation races. We evaluate how …

innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying …

. We consider a dynamic game in which firms improve both a new and a rival old technology while learning about the relative …

occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation. Theory also suggests cities are important for both … the links between creative industries, occupations, cities and innovation at the firm level. This paper addresses this gap … driver of innovation. We find no support for the hypothesis that urban creative industries firms are particularly innovative …

information for the innovation process of the firm. Appropriability is defined as the effectiveness of several protection …

-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We … find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast …. Tentative evidence suggests that only active learning stimulates several cognitive and non-cognitive mechanisms; moreover, a …