There is no shortage of dialogues and commentaries extolling the need for more innovation toregenerate sagging national productivity growth. However, hard evidence on whether or notinnovation makes a difference is largely absent because most firm-level studies are drawn fromcross-sectional data...

This paper aims to give the reader a sense of the stylised facts about what makes some firms attempt more changes compared with others. The report begins with a review of definitions of innovation; and why we care about innovation and its differential treatment in the economic and management...

There is no shortage of dialogues and commentaries extolling the need for more innovation to regenerate sagging national productivity growth. However, hard evidence on whether or not innovation makes a difference is largely absent because most firm-level studies are drawn from cross-sectional...

Innovation represents the downstream embodiment of knowledge. It is the concrete application of knowledge to enhance our material well-being. However, knowledge and innovation are fuzzy, intangible concepts with ill-defined borders. We know that its quality matters but our difficulty in research...