The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between innovation performance and innovation spillover effects, innovation inputs, innovation outputs and industrial effects. Design/methodology/approach The analysis framework including variables such as innovation spillover effect,...

This study builds a multi-product firm model with endogenous diversified innovation behaviors to highlight a micro-mechanism through which cooperative innovation affects firm-level technology spillovers. The model indicates that cooperative innovation promotes firm-level technology spillovers...

Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in...