This paper tries to find how firms use IPRs in the form of patents to protect innovation capital and find determinants … developing and/or implementing a product or process innovation in the years 2010-2012. Besides descriptive statistics which show … find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …

This article is a contribution to the discussion on innovation activity and its influence on financial performance of … operating in the manufacturing industry in Poland, in the years 2006 to 2012. Financial and qualitative data for testing the …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …