for firm entry, competitiveness, and market power. I calibrate a Schumpeterian model of endogenous growth with … distribution and a measure of firm markup are endogenously determined on a balanced growth path. I find that a spread in the wealth …

In recent decades, economic growth in countries around the world has become increasingly dependent on the dynamism of …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in knowledge-based capital could be made a more dynamic source of growth and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains …

and bank loans in the early financing of new firms and the relationship between financing choice and subsequent innovation … mix I use a two-stage analysis to probe the relationship between financing and innovation. In a novel strategy, I exploit … the role of entrepreneurial optimism to discern the relationship between debt financing and innovation outcomes …

It is well known that innovation law and policy must strike a balance between incentivizing inventions on the one hand … actors in innovation markets respond to their economic environments just like anyone else (at least on a first approximation … economic choice, but with the risky option framed as an investment in an “innovation-related” project. We find strong evidence …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies.Radical innovation occurs when technology from two distinct industrial clusters are … crossed, resulting in an entirely new product. In contrast, sustaining innovation usually involves adding technological …

and patent clearance. As a consequence, device-level licensing would likely have a chilling effect on innovation and …: Licensing at a value chain level where transaction costs are minimal; and licensing in a way that promotes downstream innovation …

knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …