' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. Our results show that the direct effects of initial VET on technological … innovation in small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are on average quite weak. If at all, a training firm's initial VET … activities are associated with production innovation activities and not with process innovation. Larger effects can only be …

innovation and technology diffusion, and is consistent with the theoretical model; (iii) the valuable skills-education gap has …

order to carry out innovation. This endogenous threshold level falls as the economy moves closer to the technological … frontier, enabling more entrepreneurs to be engaged in an innovation-based strategy, and consequently, moving the economy from … a technological structure that is based on imitation of foreign technologies to one where domestic innovation dominates …

This paper proposes a model that explains both recently documented facts about the decline of disruptive innovation and …

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics … of innovation and technological change. This tradition focused on the innovation production function however it was … aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and geography. However, empirical results hinted that knowledge production …

accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3 … arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence … the same society had higher similarity in patenting, suggesting that social networks facilitated spatial knowledge …