We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models … patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …

nanomaterials. We analyse European Patent Office data at the German district level (NUTS-3) on applications for nanomaterial patents …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 …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the PATSTAT patent data, we study invention in both types of energy …

firms, network entrepreneurs, and local financiers on the market prices of loans. I show that such relations improve the … match of capital to ideas in the network even though the overall distribution of capital to ideas remains unchanged. This … particular, I show that there are market incentives for established firms to decrease the information gap between network …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …