How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …

solutions are applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, a pathbreaking innovation in medical technology. The …

applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, a revolutionary innovation in medical technology. The econometric … from innovation is used primarily to compute a social rate of return to R&D, to explore the interrelation between … innovation and diffusion, and to trace the time profile of benefits and costs, the latter suggesting the possible occurance of …

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net … contribution of product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product …