Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

, particularly of university scientists, is positively related to innovation; (vi) there are many university spin-offs but these are …

two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the innovation subsidy; far from 'doing better' as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an … improve the effectiveness of government support for innovation …