Key indicators show Germany belonging to the countries in the OECD with strong innovation activity even though some … technologies, such as ICT and biotechnology, as innovation activities continue to focus on sectors, such as machinery and … ...<BR><P>Selon les principaux indicateurs, l’Allemagne est l’un des pays de l’OCDE où l’activité d’innovation est soutenue …

Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European … policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and … general framework conditions for innovation and growth. Austria has increased its R&D spending as a share of GDP over the last …

constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … be on ensuring that incentives arising from government subsidies are targeted on actual market failures. The very high …

This Paper analyses the impact of R&D subsidies on incumbent firms to introduce new goods. We are especially interested … in investigating various consequences of government subsidies for R&D, provided to firms that offer products of different …

Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of R&D subsidies to firms has produced mixed results so far. One possible …

evidence in support of the theoretical ¯ndings using data on Spain and Germany from the Third Community Innovation Survey …

Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted-U relationship between product-market competition and innovation. This is … inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian Model, where greater competition reduces the profitability of innovation. We show that …