emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

imitate instead of concurrently investing in innovation, which alleviates competitive pressure. In contrast with the classical …

Innovation is fundamentally dependent on the support of research technology. Governments and organizations have been …, our understanding of how specific attributes of research technologies affect the rate and direction of innovation, and … evaluates the role of research technology attributes for the rate and direction of innovation. The model produces empirically …

such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …