The debate on competition and innovation has produced a wide range of theoretical and empirical findings. Recently … innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating whether product-market competition and corporate governance … quality affect firm-level innovation, utilising a dataset for 1,400 non-financial US-listed companies. Using two-way cluster …

used as output measure of innovation. Third, corporate governance indicators such as anti-takeover defences and insider …Existing research on the relationship between market concentration and innovation has produced conflicting findings. In … addition, the emerging literature on the relationship between corporate governance and innovation tends to focus only on …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

1992-1998. The author analyzes the state innovation policy in Russia, highlights the major problems of implementation of … industrial innovation, and offers solutions. …

quantifies the effect of binding financial constraints on the innovation propensity of Italian companies. Once provided a rich … baseline specification for innovation, I analyze the impact of financial constraints by exploiting a survey-based direct … features. My results show firms that are more likely to suffer from financial problems to have a probability of innovation that …

quantifies the effects of financial barriers to the innovation propensity of Italian companies. Employing direct measures of … feedback-effect of innovation on firms' financial position. Results suggest that the innovative propensity of a company is … reflected onto a stronger depressive effect of financial constraints on innovation (-34%). Finally, the paper also provides …

for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the … the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the … three economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe and we select their environmental and dirty patents from European Patent Office …