Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1-2% of the work … environment is receptive to innovation. In addition, policymakers need to prepare for the potential job losses that can occur in …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

important differences between Japanese and US energy firms: lower elasticity of the innovation production function in R …&D expenditure, lower probability of radical innovation, and predominance of dirty technologies in Japan. This may explain our … Politikinstrumente auf das mittel- und langfristige Wirtschaftswachstum der USA und Japan vorzunehmen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen mehrere …