The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, the productivity of its R&D and the existence of knowledge spillovers across regional boundaries. Here we develop a … model which, emphasizing "the demand pull" as a key exogenous determinant of long-run innovation across regions, allows us …

Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

When commentators discuss innovation’s externalities, they often classify them into one of two categories. On the … positive externalities, or “spillovers” side, legal and economics scholars often speak of the benefits innovation confers on … other innovators. Future innovators profit from past innovation as they “stand on the shoulders of giants” to develop …

increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a prerequisite for a successful transformation process and this paper … innovate; innovation is a prerequisite for firm survival in the four industries. -- transformation ; lifestyle production … ; innovation …

role of the effect of pooling on downstream innovation. The focus of this paper is on downstream product development and … tacit knowledge and incomplete patents. -- Patent Pools ; Research and Development ; Innovation ; Tacit Knowledge …

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This paper investigates whether aligning manager and owner incentives can improve the innovation performance of firms … more sensitive to the firm's stock price the innovation performance of a firm improves. Entrenched managers, however, are …-term incentives have little impact on innovation. Higher managerial tenure increases the probability of R&D spending and innovation …

, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd …-related phenomena and practices — for example, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, user innovation, and peer production — relate to theories of …, and innovation: (1) the functions of sociality (sociality as extension of rationality, sociality as sensing and signaling …