This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the determination of firms’ and industries’ innovative activity and … concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

their effects on individual firms' performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control group of firms that … estimated effects are larger for start-up firms than incumbent firms when the effects are measured as relative effects (in … return to total assets or productivity for firms who received support compared with the control group. …

their effects on individual firms’ performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control group of firms that … estimated effects are larger for start-up firms than incumbent firms when the effects are measured as relative effects (in … return to total assets or productivity for firms who received support compared with the control group. …

The paper aims to assess how public support for innovation activities influences the economic performance of Czech … their innovation activities. The analysis was performed on the case of the Innovation Program, which was co-financed by the … European Regional Development Fund. The Innovation Program is the largest Czech program for innovation support and mainly …

&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …Using large scale EIB Investment Survey evidence for 2016 covering 8,900 non-financial firms from all size and age …

phenomena whereby firms' and parks' characteristics matter jointly. -- Science Parks ; knowledge spillovers ; innovation …The paper focuses on the role of Science Parks (SPs) as seedbeds of innovation. It investigates whether and to what … extent locating inside a science park relates to the innovative output of tenant firms. The simple assessment methodology …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both … obtained, we find superiority for national funding. -- Subsidies ; Innovation ; Policy Evaluation ; Treatment Effects …

This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success of firms. We complement the common practice of … availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matters for firms' innovation performance. Interestingly … factors. While the former approach assumes that location characteristics affect all firms in the same way, the survey allows …