We study innovation and R&D investments made from 2008 to 2010 by UK companies that were the targets of leveraged … buyout (LBO) in previous years. We find that overall, LBO companies do not exhibit lower innovation and R&D investments than … non-LBO companies during the crisis, with other things being equal. However, innovation and R&D investments decline …

of innovation as well as correlative data that show a negative correlation between income inequality and levels of … innovativeness. Our two models suggest that unequal access to problems slows innovation by reducing the level and variety of human … capital applied to problems. More interestingly, both models show that the rate of innovation decline becomes much more …

This paper studies the differences in the R&D and innovation behaviour of high-growth firms for 16 EU countries. The … results confirm that R&D and innovation are important characteristics for high-growth firms in countries close to the …

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 …

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 …

We examine how consumption externalities affect R&D activities by using a simple innovation-driven growth model where …

In this paper I consider the 1991 Grossman-Helpman model which analyses the role of innovation on growth. The model …-Helpman model unchanged, I analyse the influence of the rate of innovation on three variables: the rate of growth of final output …

In this note we investigate socio-technical transition pathways concentrating our attention on innovation niches … formations. Specifically, we present a methodological conceptualization of innovation-niches and propose a preliminary protocol … of innovation-niches propose in this paper. Although preliminary, we believe this study represents an important step in a …

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 …