enabling discovery for nanotechnology. Nanotech publishing and patenting has grown phenomenally. Over half of nanotech authors … nanotechnology where and when scientists are publishing breakthrough academic articles. A high average education level is also … similar process appears to have started in nanotechnology …

affect the overall rate at which innovation occurs in the economy. This essay provides an introduction to and review of the … research on social networks most relevant to innovation, with a particular focus on the earliest stages of the innovation … importance of social relationships to innovation or alter the patterns of relationships in ways that might promote innovation …

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 …

Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports … between 1999 and 2005. On average, process innovation declines more strongly than product innovation. In addition, initially …

Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation …The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … to institutionalize channels through which cross-organizational collaboration may be achieved …