This paper provides causal evidence of local innovation spillovers, i.e. innovation by one firm fostering innovation by … neighboring firms. First, I document that exogenous shocks to innovation by listed firms affect innovation by private firms in the … same geographical area. I also find that such local innovation spillovers decline rapidly with distance. Second, I find …

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

optimal incentives for innovation. For chemical inventions, the courts deem them unpatentable if the chemical lacks a … innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in …

disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …