This survey reviews the literature on firm dynamics, innovation and growth aiming to better understand the main channels through which innovation affects the performance of modern economies. Since innovations fundamentally diffuse through a complex process of firm and product creation and...

This chapter discusses the Proceedings of the JRC-IEA Roundtable, which objective was to promote a technical debate on the recent developments of DSGE and alternative modelling strategies, the main mechanisms at play and their effectiveness in assessing the impact of R&D and innovation policies....

Universities are institutions whose activities have important economic and social impacts on their nearest surroundings. Most studies of the economic impact of universities analyze exclusively the impacts on the demand side, the effects on output, income and employment deriving from the...