We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …