generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …

learningbydoing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. A dynamic step-by-step innovation model with … history dependency is developed. Firms can accumulate knowledge by investing in R&D. As a benchmark without knowledge … experience by performing R&D the resulting effect of knowledge induces technological leaders to rest on their laurels which …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

substan-tial net advantages of agglomeration have more to do with broad knowledge and diversity than with regional clustering …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

innovation through inter-firm knowledge spillovers and improved job-match quality up to certain threshold. The point when costs …This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning … estimating various knowledge production functions suggest an inverse u-shaped relationship. The exchange of R&D personnel fosters …