An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …

During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …

employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output and …

findings in part explain why innovation prizes lost favour as a technology policy instrument in both the United States and …

We present evidence of a causal impact of research and development (R&D) tax incentives on innovation. We exploit a …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending (rather than R …&D spending) is used to predict innovation in the CDM model. Second, we assume that a firm simultaneously innovates and chooses …

present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …

innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …