Using firm-level innovation data we find surprising results on the benefits of innovation. Only manufacturing firms … with below average productivity growth are likely to benefits significantly from successful innovation, while faster …

evidence of ‘technology upgrading’ through higher exporter innovation rates. …

Using firm level data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2008–2010 we analyse the importance of eight skill … sets for the innovation performance of firms. We distinguish between radical and incremental innovation. Our results … suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the importance of skills for different types of innovation and that some …

, licensing decreases (increases) innovation by decreasing (increasing) the strategic (non-strategic) benefit from innovation …. However, licensing increases innovation under a two-part tariff licensing contract. Licensing does not reduce social welfare. …

property rights may discourage innovation. …

This paper uses survival analysis to investigate the effect of innovation on export duration of 105 countries at the … product level. The estimation shows that the duration of exports increases with innovation. The effect is stronger for …

This study analyzes how patent protection affects innovation in an R&D-based growth model with elastic labor supply. We … find that increasing patent breadth may generate an inverted-U effect on innovation depending on whether the model features … the knowledge-driven or lab-equipment innovation process. This result highlights an important interaction between elastic …

The innovation–performance relationship is well studied in the literature, but the effect of innovation-based public …