, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …This paper provides some new theoretical speculations and empirical evidence on the relationship between design …

' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses whether a firm's size affects the amount spent on design and the …The objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the importance of design - defined as the procedures, choice … return in terms of innovation output to this activity. In doing so, it partly compensates for the lack of empirical evidence …

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the … integration (such as the new economic geography, urbanization economics, and the theory of comparative advantages), surveys the …