We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader … North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth lowers welfare relative to the Nash equilibrium. When both countries can … innovate, harmonization toward narrower patent breadth may raise world welfare. …

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …

"Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs", code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs' weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

The study aims at providing new evidence with respect to the still unresolved question, whether the innovation … identifies a set of innovation strategies (cluster analysis), whose adequacy he evaluates using the 'economics of innovation' as … reference. Secondly, the author investigates the dynamics of innovation strategies to get some insights into structural change …

rather than training workers to enhance innovation performance. …

-ups with experienced inventors holding a patent at the time of receiving the first round of investment produce the largest …

The number of innovation studies with a management perspective has grown considerably over the last 25 years. This … study identified the universities that are most productive and influential in innovation research. The leading innovation … "innovation" and second by 18 management-related research areas. The results indicate that US universities are the most productive …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family … commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological …