This volume provides an understanding of firms' R&D and innovation strategies and their economy-wide consequences. It is based on the premise that differences in firm-level returns, as well as economy-wide outcomes, may be linked to the heterogeneous ways in which firms organize and undertake...

Introduction / Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough -- Three stories about national systems of innovation / Alina Lidén -- Innovation, productivity and export : evidence from Italy / Roberto Antonietti and Giulio Cainelli -- Profiting from the breakthrough : technology...