We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

Recent studies in the tradition of Schmookler have re-emphasised the potential role of demand in stimulating innovation …. Here, we reconsider the role of "home" and "export" market demand in stimulating manufacturing innovation using comparable … innovation production functions using panel data estimators over the sample period 1994 to 2005. For a range of innovation …

activities with universities compared to larger firms. -- Innovation ; Knowledge and Technology Transfer ; Specialization …This paper investigates the relationship between technology specialization and innovation performance of firms … emphasizing technology transfer activities with universities as an important knowledge source in order to attenuate the …

innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …

This paper analyzes the impact of technological diversity on innovation inputs and success using Swiss firm-level panel … applications as suggested by the literature. However, since patent applications reflect an intermediate innovation input rather …

and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from …We propose a new patent-based measure of knowledge spillovers that calculates technological proximity based on firms … 'relevant' firms, second, it is more precise because it only takes into account knowledge relations with technologically …

were exploration-oriented. -- knowledge exploration ; knowledge exploitation ; innovation … respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with … universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …