Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …. The authors paint a nuanced portrait of Canada's innovation performance. The existence of an innovation gap with the …

, the major factors favouring this innovation within R&D consortia are highlighted. The econometric analyses, realised on a …

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

The Working Paper analyses the performances of the Walloon innovation system in 2008. This analysis concentrates on the … six dimensions of the innovation system: knowledge development, human resources, R&D exploitation, innovation absorption … Walloon innovation system with the performances of innovation systems of other countries and regions in Europe. They were …

' innovation behaviours can be analysed and exploited in order to assess the technological performance of the economy. Three … empirical applications using French data are derived from the previous argument. Our results show first that innovation is … highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …