rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …