We study the financing of R&D and innovation expenditures of French defence firms at the end of a period characterised …. Improving their financing may induce an increasing of their R&D and innovation expenditures. JEL: L60, L64, G32, O3 …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

Knowledge exchange, innovation policy, and international trade flows are key aspects of the knowledge-based economy. In … relation between innovation and exports. …

role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and …

research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions … between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they discuss factors that help sustain these …

their effects on innovation, several merger proposals have been challenged due to their adverse innovation effects. In a … desirability of merger may depend on the effectiveness of the patent system and the cost of innovation. …

-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor market institutions – affect the group-innovation relationship. The empirical …, GAFs are more innovative than SAFs: we estimate the innovation propensity of GAFs to be 9% higher than that of SAFs …

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … dataset of an innovation survey of German manufacturing firms. In this survey, the firms do not only report about their … innovation behavior, their export share and other relevant control variables, but also whether specific impulses furthered their …

We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …