In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years …, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national … innovation economy. The principal difference last year was that, first, the innovation vector of development (at least at the …

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge …

This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to … behaviour of companies, not just for the knowledge generated in the same industry, but also for that generated in the same …, we find that innovation performance exhibits a high degree of inertia. Further, some other observed firm characteristics …

of workers specifically engaged in innovation and firm size in the pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries. In both …