This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel … of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is … per capita. Business enterprise R&D (BERD) expenditures are more effective in generating patent applications than public …

use, innovative activity, and patent protection, on economic growth in a model with many regions. In each region …. Second, we characterize the transitional dynamics in our model. Third, we determine the value of the patent expiry rate that … maximizes the equilibrium growth rate of a region. Finally, we show that a policy of offering perpetual patent protection does …

use, innovative activity, and patent protection, on economic growth in a model with many regions. In each region …. Second, we characterize the transitional dynamics in our model. Third, we determine the value of the patent expiry rate that … maximizes the equilibrium growth rate of a region. Finally, we show that a policy of offering perpetual patent protection does …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by …

By using firm-level data provided by the fourth round of the (Italian) Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2012), this … paper explores whether the implementation of specific changes in work organisation within a firm influences its innovation … performance, not only directly, but also via reinforcing the link between human capital resources and innovation. The authors also …

rather than training workers to enhance innovation performance. …

small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of …

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

We study how R&D-driven firm innovation and capital structure interact in a tradeoff model allowing for inventor … mobility, innovation strategy switches, and limited failure tolerance. Debt use reduces firms' acquirable R&D benefits by …