This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the 'mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems'. For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …

innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects … innovative activities. The more grants a firm has received in the past, the more it invests in current innovation projects …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We … find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast …. Tentative evidence suggests that only active learning stimulates several cognitive and non-cognitive mechanisms; moreover, a …

product innovation is stronger when firms provided feedback at the interim stages. In contrast, whether and how firms set … milestones was not associated with the likelihood of product innovation. The marginal effect of feedback was larger for new …-to-market product innovation than for new-to-firm product innovation, and the feedback from non-R&D organizations within the firm in the …