direction of innovation. In particular, developments in the ICT sector have been discussed as a currently dominant source of … understanding of the innovation process have widened the perspective. Essentially, industrial innovation is a process of knowledge … discussed. As several examples of the policies which support innovation reveal, Member States have developed new strategies …

We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …

To address the relationship between innovation and competition we jointly estimate the opportunity, production, and … impact functions of innovation in a simultaneous system. Based on Swiss micro-data, we apply a 3-SLS system estimation. The … low innovation, 2. low competition with high innovation, and 3. a "no innovation trap" at very high levels of competition …