This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

Europe#s innovation potential is currently dominated by well-established large companies. In most member countries the … be the driving force behind radical innovation which will be a source of employment and growth in future. In addition … regard to the contribution of SMEs and young firms to innovation. The central question of the paper is whether SMEs and young …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

This paper develops a sequential application-grant framework to analyze competing explanations for the two U.S. patent … argues that the 1990s intellectual property regime shift lowered examination standards and caused the 1990s patent surge …. Results from the empirical models reject the ¿friendly court¿ hypothesis as the primary source of the eighties patent surge …

innovation and lower production cost, entry of the entrant transforms the market structure into a Joint …-Profit-Maximization monopoly under the European Commission (EC) constraint. However, the post-entry market becomes more competitive if the EC did …, Joint-Profit-Maximization monopoly can serve to explain why Japanese Telecoms fees are high. …

different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …

A weak version of the Porter hypothesis claims that strict environmental policy provides positive innovation incentives … tests this hypothesis across countries by linking environmental stringency to innovation proxied by patents in the field of … models do not reveal a positive significant effect on innovation as a result of increased stringency. In the theoretically …

Collaboration over distance is difficult to maintain in innovation projects which require a great deal of regional … collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier … literature started to investigate factors, which increase the probability of long-distance innovation co-operation. The paper at …