ownership structure reflects a trade-off between easing target credit constraints and the costs of operating in an environment …

communication costs may have been to facilitate gains from trade through the specialization of research tasks. Thus, the advent of …-tier universities in the national innovation system as producers of new, high-quality knowledge …

, internal firm organization, performance and innovation, which is representative of the entire Canadian economy. Our empirical … particularly striking for innovation, as firms with some priority in business strategies are significantly more likely to innovate …

, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using … and innovation and show that the supply chain of multinational enterprises and international trade are also important … channels. There is no evidence for an inverted U relationship between innovation and foreign competition. The relationship …