Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country's economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examines the impact of road density on firm innovation in China using a matched patent database at the...

We study the underlying mechanisms of technological innovation in SMEs in the context of ex-post evaluation of European Union's regional policy. Our aim is to explain the observed change in firms' innovativeness after receiving EU support for technological investment. To do so, we take an...

This paper investigates the development of an open innovation (OI) ecosystem in Israel by analyzing the evolution of OI activities, processes, functions, and practices in the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem from 1993 to 2022. Our findings show a movement from internal patterns of innovation...

A key concept in the economics of innovation is the 'public good' nature of knowledge. This generates a tension between incentivizing knowledge production by allowing knowledge creators appropriate the economic benefits and encouraging its diffusion to enhance the social return to knowledge...

Measuring innovation activities involves critical decisions in selecting appropriate indicators and levels of observation. The present article contributes to the literature on this subject by addressing innovation measurement on the regional level. The dimensionality of regional innovation is...

We study whether, when, and how better connectivity through nonstop flights leads to positive innovation outcomes for firms in the global context. Using unique data of all flights emanating from 5,015 airports around the globe from 2005 to 2015 and exploiting a regression discontinuity...

Each region can be considered to be an individual regional innovation system. It is possible to distinguish various types of these systems. The approach based on assessment of deficiencies, which are organization thinness, lock-in effect and fragmentation, defines three types of imperfect...

Background: Innovation policy supports innovation in companies, as it is crucial for economic, social and environmental development. Objectives: The research aims to verify whether companies that have received public support for innovation are experiencing turnover growth. Methods/Approach: The...

Literature on how regional integration within a country affects corporate innovation is limited. This study proposes a dynamic mechanism for integration of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) to promote corporate innovation based on the peer effect among enterprises. It constructs a panel regression...

In order to better capture non-R&D based processes related to Learning by Doing, Using and Interacting (DUI) as a basis for policy advice, this paper empirically identifies DUI mode drivers of SME innovation. For the first time, a large set of conceptually derived indicators is used in a...