Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … sectoral pattern of innovation and the distance of a country's industry to the global technological frontier. We explore these … dimensions based on longitudinal industry-level data from the Community Innovation Survey. We find that the demand on markets for …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy …

indices to make three contributions. First, we describe the geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe. Second … intergenerational mobility and innovation, and find robust evidence that higher mobility is associated with increased innovation. …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple “trapped factor” model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …