Understanding the long-term patterns of innovation in energy technologies is crucial to informing public policy … planning in the context of climate change. This paper analyzes which of two common models of innovation over the technology … life-cycle – the product-process innovation shift observed for mass-produced goods or the system-component shift observed …

technologies or sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by … knowledge spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … only influential in the case of wind technology. We also find evidence that public R&D stimulates innovation, particularly …

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network …

imitate instead of concurrently investing in innovation, which alleviates competitive pressure. In contrast with the classical …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …