predicts that competition is the key driver of the rate at which technology is adopted. -- Innovation ; market structure …

: First, spin-outs are an important source of entry. Second, spin-out founds come from firms with high know-how. Third, firms …

management through technology; human resources, culture and innovation must be recognized and respected. This will enhance SMEs …

This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms' growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i … effects of generic innovation on firms' growth, and this is particularly true for gazelles, which actually appear to run …

debate, especially in phases of economic recession. So far, the effects of innovation - in its manifold declinations and … different compensation mechanisms through which employment adjusts after an innovation is introduced. Secondly, it critically … attempt to conceptualize a number of stylized facts and empirical regularities on the innovation-employment nexus. …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …