of the contributions of different innovation linkages to innovation deserves more attention. Are the different innovation … linkages equally complementary to research inputs in fostering innovation? This paper addresses the contributions of different … innovation linkages to innovation, across two different measures of innovation. We find that a broader index of innovation …

finance availability constraints actually spurred innovation. Finally, the economy-wide effects of greater economic freedom …

path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two … alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are specified. One is based on patent applications, the other on numbers of … researchers. With patents as indicator the path-dependence hypothesis is rejected, and knowledge spillovers from neighboring …

This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. -- Regional financial system ; FDI ; innovation ; patent ; regional …

This study investigates the origins of disruptive innovation. According to the canonical model, disruptive innovations … do not originate from existing customers - in contrast with what the user innovation literature would predict. We … compiled a unique historical and content-analytic dataset based on 62 cases identified from the disruptive innovation …