There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

Innovation entsteht kein Produkt. Wie sich Unternehmer beim Hervorbringen von Innovationen verhalten, ist aber weitgehend … unbekannt – und damit auch, welches Verhalten sich positiv und welches sich negativ auf eine Innovation auswirkt. Ueber dieses …

industry patenting intensity) reduces market competition, it may also encourage firms’ innovation incentives (in terms of firms …In this paper we analyze how industrial property rights (IPRs), measured by patents granted, affect competition at the … industry level, and their induced effects on firms’ innovation incentives. We use for that purpose a panel dataset of Spanish …

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …

respect to intellectual property rights and competition. Realising Russia’s innovation potential will also require reform of …This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It … well as the scope for improving the tax regime for private-sector R&D.<P>Augmenter l'efficacité de la politique de l'innovation …

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is … acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the process of creative destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort … that high-quality inventions are sold under bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems are shown to be solved by …

findings suggest that technological innovation affects firms' acquisition decisions, and in turn, acquisitions help firms …I examine whether technological innovation is a motivating factor in firms' acquisition decisions and how an … acquisition (or an acquisition withdrawal) affects technological innovation in subsequent years. I find that firms engaging in …