(Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an analysis of two Sectoral Innovation Systems (Malerba, 2002) in the …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

The paper surveys the literature on the measurement of innovation activity and evaluates the position of Italy with … respect to the other major European countries. Innovation has been measured from different perspectives: the environment in … which firms operate, firms' commitment, its outcome. Both traditional and new measures of innovation are considered, using …

' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses whether a firm's size affects the amount spent on design and the …The objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the importance of design - defined as the procedures, choice … return in terms of innovation output to this activity. In doing so, it partly compensates for the lack of empirical evidence …

on domestic firm technological innovation based on a unique dataset that was collected through a survey with 600 plus … very limited. It was found that firm innovation benefited significantly from their technological relationships with foreign … firms. However, the results also found that export/import did contribute to domestic firm innovation, although supplier …

China's proclaimed aim of becoming the world's leader in science, technology and innovation by the mid twenty first …

international awards for innovation were higher near universities …