We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …

This paper investigates the causal relationship between innovation and labour force reallocation within the firm … inter-firms and sectors reallocations, innovation activity can be effective in hampering immigration flows from lagging … flow of graduated people took place the innovation process was not effective in increasing the requirement of high …

This paper focuses on the innovation gap between countries in the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) area and its … implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro … which shows that differences in innovation between countries explain differences in growth of per capita GDP within this …