The paper focuses on the role of Science Parks (SPs) as seedbeds of innovation. It investigates whether and to what … proposed relies on count data models, uses patents as innovation performance indicators, and exploits original data regarding … controlling for the existence of innovation lags. Parks' first mover disadvantages also emerge, as well as non-negligible matching …

fluorinatedgreenhouse gas emissions. Using patents as an indicator of innovations and patent citations as a proxy for knowledge flows the … across patent applicant- and firm-types is analyzed. We find that most environmental patents originate from Germany and the …

, which only holds in the long-term but not in the short-term. Further, we find support for a moderating effect of innovation … in the long-term, innovation mediates the ESP-CFP relationship suggesting that innovation should be considered as a long …

findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

The impact of innovation on firm performance has been a matter of significant interest to economists and policy makers … for decades. Although innovation is generally regarded as a means of improving the competitiveness of firms and their … increased productivity. Therefore, in recent years, the relationship between innovation and firm performance has been modelled …

innovation distinguishing between dirty (internal combustion engine) and clean (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the …

the costs and benefits of the patent system, the use of patents as innovation indicators, and the need for more research …The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in …

This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …