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 …

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

This study aims to frame the innovation process between the two sectors of the economy: public and private. Innovation … is recognized as the basis for long-term economic development, issues raised by Kondratiev and Schumpeter. Innovation … corporations to support and promote innovation processes. It can not belong or should not belong exclusively to only a sector or …

-run technological innovation. In the following article, this wisdom is tested using data on international patent activity, scientific … structured to adapt to innovation’s gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come …

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

over the 1993-2003 period, firms with overconfident CEOs have greater return volatility, invest more in innovation, obtain … more patents and patent citations, and achieve greater innovative success for given research and development (R …&D) expenditure. Overconfident managers only achieve greater innovation than non-overconfident managers in innovative industries …