openness has a more positive impact in boosting innovation in BRICS than in the five OECD countries, whereas ethnic diversity … and R&D expenditure have a more positive influence on innovation activities in OECD countries than in BRICS. Surprisingly …, despite popular presumption that the Internet has dramatically leveled the innovation playing field by making distant …

, we find that innovation performance exhibits a high degree of inertia. Further, some other observed firm characteristics … be relevant determinants of the likelihood of innovation …

Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a … rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …