Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

A merger between two innovation competitors is often suspected to reduce the variety of heterogeneous entities which … of "diversity" can be detrimental to innovation because it reduces the number of independent sources for possible future …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

This paper explores the drivers of inter-firm R&D collaborations in a particular type of innovation network, the … technological districts created in Italy under a specific public policy to promote innovation. The empirical analysis used an … important to enhance the innovation capabilities of small firms and their performance. …

at enhancing the innovation capacities of firms. In turn, increasing in innovation capacities give rise to new business … when significant business model innovation is at stake. Our paper discusses the role played by local institutions while … impediments as they act as innovation intermediaries. We base our research on the study of BRIO, a publicly funded collaborative …

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …