finds diverse results across the two sectors. The distance between regions does not hinder the absorption of foreign … research indicates that for knowledge absorption, geographic distance plays differing roles in manufacturing and services, due …

The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely … to local firms. We investigate whether FDI spillovers influence different phases of the innovation process (from decision …

A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system … hindering the movement towards the technological frontier. This paper evaluates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in … integration of EU countries’ innovation efforts and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES …

"The generation and implementation of ideas, or knowledge, is crucial for economic performance. We study this process … in a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and … innovation. First, intermediation allows us to finance more transactions with fewer assets. Second, it ameliorates certain …

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …