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 …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …

innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …

Software engineering is prototypical of knowledge work in the digital economy and exhibits strong geographic … concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. We investigate productivity effects of knowledge worker …

This paper develops an occupation-level measure of Capital-Embodied Innovation (CEI) by matching patents with capital …

US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement …

STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …

investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …