classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

they matter. We first characterize YICs in the sample of innovation active firms. We show that firms that combine newness … financial constraints, both internal and external, as an important factor hampering their innovation activities, significantly … more so than other innovation active firms. This access to finance problem is an often used motive for government …

In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for … private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public …

This contribution focuses on the heterogeneity in innovation capacity within Europe across its different Member State … crisis affected this trend of convergence? We then take a look at the research and innovation policies which the EU countries … have in place and try to assess whether these policies match with the heterogeneous EU countries' innovation capacity …

This contribution focuses on the heterogeneity in innovation capacity within Europe across its different Member States … crisis affected this trend of convergence? We then take a look at the research and innovation policies which the EU countries … have in place and try to assess whether these policies match with the heterogeneous EU countries’ innovation capacity …

Innovation in the European Union remains weak according to a number of key "input" indicators, especially R …&D investment by the business sector, and there are relatively few signs of progress. From a firm-level perspective, Europe …'s innovation gap relative to the US results from an inappropriate industrial structure in which new firms do not play a significant …