of both types of venture capital investors) led by a private investor. -- Innovation ; patents ; private venture capital … investors ; governmental venture capital investors ; syndication ; biotech and pharmaceutical companies ; Europe …Although there seems to be consensus in the literature that venture capital investors increase the innovation output of …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from … technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

CEE region confirms that, while the overall position of the region in Europe did not change over the period under review … developed countries in Europe, the central part is driven by an abundance of public resources, while the venture capital sector …

and prosperity. However, the innovation headline indicators are ambitiously defined targets of the Europe-2020 strategy …. The paper at hand analyses and highlights the innovation and creative capability within the Europe 2020 strategy framework. … 2010, the European Commission released the Europe-2020 strategy, which shall push the EU to be the smartest and most …

investigate the nexus between the use of non-standard work and innovation performance using data for 18 manufacturing and 23 … arrangements and the introduction of both product and process innovation. Furthermore, we show that the harmful consequences of the … spread of non-standard work on firms' product innovation propensity are more pronounced in high-tech sectors. …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …

technologies through global networks of innovation. Should Europe fear the rise of the South or see this global trend as an … Europe and its southern partners to gain from challenges faced from the internationalisation of innovation activities … to international innovation collaborations has been the main objective of the EU 7th Framework Program project INGINEUS …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a; production function; of innovation for European regions …

,564 investments by lead VC investors in Europe, we test how this treatment affects portfolio companies' performances in terms of the … likelihood of being listed or acquired, the number of patents, the number of employees and the amount of sales. Our results show …