We analyze the role of intermediaries in electronic markets using detailed data of more than 14,000 originated loans on …. We find that these market participantsact as financial intermediaries and significantly improve borrowers' credit …

We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by privateequity firms on innovation, focusing … pensionfunds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control forthe standard determinants of innovation …

innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible … resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version of a duopoly innovation race, and studies the patenting decisionof an … innovator who has private information about the improvability of her innovation.In this setting, it is shown that a firm may use …

catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

In der neu gegründeten Abteilung Innovation, Human Resource Development, Regionalentwicklung im ITB werden eine Reihe … von Forschungsprojekten durchgeführt, deren Gegenstand mit Innovation zu tun hat. Um genauer zu sein: mit Innovation im …

man dann von Unternehmen, die es verstanden haben,ihr Innovationsmanagement besonders erfolgreich umzusetzen und deren …

The literature on Regional Systems of Innovation (RSI) has produced an extensivebody of research in recent years and … institutional, systemic andevolutionary approaches to innovation and learning.... …