investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in knowledge-based capital could be made a more dynamic source of growth and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

innovation premium among large firms. A battery of tests shows that this innovation premium among small firms is explained by … that attribute higher returns to innovation to investor underreaction. We argue that an innovation premium exists among … small firms, but not large firms, because small innovators focus more on risky product innovation and rely more on …

In this article we investigate the determinants of SMEs Innovation in Europe. We use data from the European Innovation …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

Innovation is key to boosting Australia’s productivity and inclusiveness. This paper examines the policies that create … good conditions for innovation, not only in science and technology but also wider forms, such as business-model innovation …’s numerous innovation-related SME support schemes are uncertain. Federal and state governments are taking a positive approach to …

The notions of dynamic capabilities, intellectual capital, and innovation performance have been examined in many … dynamic capabilities and intellectual capital in respect of innovation performance. Previous studies tend to argue that … dynamic capabilities played a mediator or moderator role on intellectual capital and innovation performance linkage. Therefore …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

The limitations of using patent data as a measure of technological innovation have long been known (Griliches, 1990 … significant US patent holdings shows a variety of types of innovation leadership …

In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different … interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft … 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are two kinds of regional innovation occurring in these examples. The first …