literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

The "market for innovation" -- the sale and licensing of patents -- is an often discussed source of incentives to … assumptions, allows us to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents in the market for innovation. The gains from …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a … not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts and citation-weighted) and …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …