, such as legal origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a country …

This paper investigates the main postulations of the R&D based growth models that innovation is created in the R …&D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of R …&D. The analysis employs various panel data techniques and uses patent and R&D data for 20 OECD and 10 Non-OECD countries for …

innovation, but once discovery takes place there is an incentive to lower protection. The sub optimal but time consistent policy … involves an insufficient level of protection and, therefore, of innovation. In more technologically advanced economies … participation in the World Trade Organization, or, more controversially, some form of bilateral punishment, may be used …

can result in rising returns to innovation and in turn greater demand for cash as firms insure against innovation … major G7 countries during 1995-2014, a period that saw an unprecedented rise in globalization and business innovation …

-level factors, including product market regulation, financial constraints and innovation. Using firm level data from four European …

innovation using more than 1.5 million patents granted to firms in OECD countries. We test the 'international technology sourcing …' hypothesis that foreign innovation activities tap into foreign R and D and improve home productivity through knowledge spillovers …

acceptances for R&D tax incentives, a special survey, and for the first time, the science and technology module from the 2000 …