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

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …

This Paper develops a framework for testing discrete complementarities in innovation policy using European data on … obstacles to innovation. We propose a discrete test of supermodularity in innovation policy leading to a number of inequality … constraints. We apply our test to two types of innovation decisions: to innovate or not, and if so, by how much. We find that …

from two Dutch Community Innovation Surveys in 1996 and 1998. Applying a system method estimator for probit equations shows …

Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for 14 European countries. Our model incorporates three groups of variables which could … firm, the second group measures different innovation activities and the third group describes the internationalisation of …

In this Paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm’s innovation process with this firm’s investment … results indicate that firms with small budgets for innovation will not invest in basic research. This occurs in the short run …

universities, using Community Innovation Survey data for Belgium. We find that large firms are more likely to have cooperative … agreements with universities. These agreements are formed whenever risk is not an important obstacle to innovation, and typically … appropriate the returns from innovation for explaining cooperative agreements with universities. We do argue that cooperating with …