This paper investigates whether multinational firms are less or more efficient in innovation activities than domestic … firms. Using patents and citations scaled by R&D expenses and R&D capital as measures of innovation efficiency, we find that … multinational firms have lower levels of innovation efficiency than purely domestic firms. This finding has been supported by …

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to establish a formal relationship between innovation and performance … the firm and to the domestic market enhances firms´ productivity and sales. In the same way, innovation in management and … invest in R&D. We also study the factors behind the firms´ decision to invest in innovation, the intensity of such investment …

the links (correlations) between innovation investment, innovation output, firm productivity and export performance. …

This paper raises the question of the relationship between innovation and productivity conditional to ICT use and R …&D activities during the innovation process. Concretely, we wonder whether R&D activities and ICT use considered as innovation … these innovation outputs conditional to ICT use and R&D lead to a higher level of labour productivity. In this adaptation of …

The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …

1996-2003 and on the National Innovation Survey (PINTEC) for information on technological development. In the article …. Second, econometric models relating R&D expenditures, technological innovation and the accumulation of fixed capital are …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …