This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The … between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign-owned firms experience higher … job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment-creating effects of product innovation are larger …

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while input from customers and research … institutions enhance original innovation. …

innovation. We present novel data on how frequently innovative German firms encountered problems with access to intellectual … property (IP) for their innovation activities. While a small percentage of firms reported having abandoned or not started … innovation projects because of IP issues, larger fractions reported having pursued their projects after modifying them. Using …

important role on innovation activity. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of institutional variation across … European countries in explaining differences in their innovation intensity at the industry level. We employ a novel indicator … of innovation therefore circumventing the limitations of more traditional indicators. Our results are broadly consistent …

The impact of innovation on firm performance has been a matter of significant interest to economists and policy makers … for decades. Although innovation is generally regarded as a means of improving the competitiveness of firms and their … attempts to assess the drivers of the innovation process in two different institutional settings: mature market economies of …

This study focuses on the persistence of innovation in a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1990 …–2008. In particular, we analyse whether persistence in firms’ innovation activities over time is the result of previous … innovation (output) are highly persistent at the firm level. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and initial …

of innovation. …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …

This paper explores the relationships among product, process and organizational innovation, examining the … complementarities-in-performance between these forms of innovation, within a supermodularity framework. Drawing upon two large samples … between different forms of innovation. Since unconditional tests are often inconclusive about these complementarities, we …