Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …

measure for the innovative activity of a firm to identify the effects of credit constraints on the innovation behaviour of … financing conditions do not foster it. To explain this novel result we extend the usual theory of innovation activity by … rigidities with respect to a firm’s individual innovation capacity, which leads to a differentiation between a long run and a …

measure for the innovative activity of a firm to identify the effects of credit constraints on the innovation behaviour of … financing conditions do not foster it. To explain this novel result we extend the usual theory of innovation activity by … rigidities with respect to a firm’s individual innovation capacity, which leads to a differentiation between a long run and a …

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …