Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms … with good prospects for innovation. Aggregate productivity growth requires that firms with the best prospects for …

innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC … using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovation proxy. Drawing on recent literature on innovation …

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

This paper reconsiders the licensing of a common value innovation to a downstream duopoly, assuming a dual licensing …

We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …

Industrial development requires technological capability in industry. National innovation system is anchored on the … critical at the firm level. This paper describes the structure and characteristics of the Philippine national innovation system …, and compares it with the American, Japanese, and German national systems of innovation. It concludes that the Philippine …