answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel … further find lagged negative effects on the (citation-weighted) number of filed patents. …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R … more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …