This paper reviews the emergence and evolution of major topics in economics of innovation. Throughout the paper … growth, and the way in which economics literature has dealt with this issue over time. The structure of this survey …

Based on patent data and industry specific energy prices for 18 OECD countries over 30 years we investigate on an … industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio …

impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and other than green technologies on green patent activities …. It turned out that the internal green knowledge stock is positively related to green patent activities with a … countries are also positively related with industries' green patent activities, although with a significantly lower marginal …

patent and trademark office that minimizes the legal uncertainty surrounding patents as collateral and maximizes the growth …This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect … face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D. High growth rates of innovations, possibly higher than the real rate …

cycle where innovation induces industry growth, which in turn induces innovative activities. Furthermore, patent growth … a positive connection between industry growth and patent growth. In addition, the patent growth lags, both backward and … seems to have a weak positive impact on industry growth with a lag of 13 years. This indicates that patent growth might …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … growth and produce and commercialize high quality innovations. They are more satisfied than employees. More importantly …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

Human capital plays a key role in fostering technology adoption, the major source of economic growth in developing … growth, the model reveals that incentives to invest in public education vanish if a country is poorly endowed with human … better-endowed counterparts build up human capital thereby promoting technology adoption and growth, the growth process in …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …