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

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their … financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A …

We take a first look at financial patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). As is the case at the US Patent and … firms in non-financial sectors with diversified patent portfolios own a large share of financial patents at the EPO. However … patent applications take longer and they are more likely to be refused by the patent office, suggesting greater uncertainty …