The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is … technologically advanced innovation. In this paper we find empirical evidence that both effects are at work - multinational … innovation in countries with low EPL. …

productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …

, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main …

industry life cycle. The theory of knowledge spillovers, based on the knowledge production function for innovative activity …, suggests that geographic proximity matters most in industries where tacit knowledge plays an important role in the generation … of innovative activity. According to the emerging literature on the industry life cycle, tacit knowledge plays the most …

An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There …

least as innovative as their larger counterparts poses something of a paradox. Where do small firms get their knowledge … identification of the extent to which spillovers exist between major sources generating new knowledge, such as the R&D laboratories … more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

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 …

This paper looks at the genesis of innovation in the United States from a territorial perspective. The analysis aims to … disentangle the impact of local R&D expenditure from other contextual conditions supportive of the process of innovation …. Particular emphasis is devoted to the role of socio-economic factors and systems of innovation conditions (‘social filter …