This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

respect of 3D printing studios, and aligning this with the legal issues that may emerge in the context of patent, copyright …

Research and development (R&D) in the field of nanomaterials is expected to be a major driver of innovation and … firm, regional - or even country-level data. Estimating the effects for the entire national system of innovation, however …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

Europe#s innovation potential is currently dominated by well-established large companies. In most member countries the … be the driving force behind radical innovation which will be a source of employment and growth in future. In addition … regard to the contribution of SMEs and young firms to innovation. The central question of the paper is whether SMEs and young …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

This paper develops a sequential application-grant framework to analyze competing explanations for the two U.S. patent … argues that the 1990s intellectual property regime shift lowered examination standards and caused the 1990s patent surge …. Results from the empirical models reject the ¿friendly court¿ hypothesis as the primary source of the eighties patent surge …

the Slovak Republic was analyzed. The study differentiates between product innovation and three different forms of process …