Understanding and estimating the impact of fiscal incentives on innovation are crucial elements for policy evaluation …. This is so because innovation- be it of the product or the process type- is able to move the production frontier and hence … that innovation is the final goal of public policy, most studies look at the relationship between R&D expenses and fiscal …

Abstract: We discuss public procurement instruments for acquiring innovation, focusing on the European Pre …-commercial Procurement, Procurement of Innovative Solutions and Innovation Partnerships. We analyse in particular how firms' innovation … specificity of the innovation; (iii) the presence of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the market and the level of market …

to be especially aggressive in terms of innovation if they want to enter and succeed in markets where incumbents already …

The objective of the study is to document the existence of innovation gaps between the EU and its main competitors in … government policies in Europe’s future needs for innovation in information and communication technologies (ICT) through a … comparison with the USA and Asian countries. Our analysis shows that rather than there being a simple innovation gap with the EU …

(previously managed by Capitalia-Mediocredito Centrale), which contains information on both product and process innovation by … the same (unobserved) factors that affect the innovation outcome. In such a situation OLS estimated are biased and …