market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

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 paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of … present the institutional framework as well as the development of electricity markets in the European Union, Chile and Brazil … electricity companies and transnational competition, Chile and Brazil have only partially liberalized their electricity sector …

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R …