invention or innovation cannot be guaranteed. Our main aim is to examine the relationship between business R&D expenditure …, invention and innovation in the long-run. We also examine the level of business R&D expenditure in EU countries. The long …The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation …

choice of innovation partners, the geographical dimension of these partnerships has until fairly recently attracted … education and the open-mindedness of managers. At the firm level, size tends to have a positive effect, but more so for …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … circumstances in which there is either too much or too little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) the aggregate economy of N>2 …

This paper investigates short-term effects of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation empirically. Innovation … research has found a strong positive, causal relationship between VC investment and innovation. Using this insight, we can … explore the repercussions of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation by examining their effects on venture capital (VC …

This paper focuses on the efficiency of innovation intermediary organizations and also reviews the connections of … intermediaries with regional and local actors emphasizing the human side of innovation. In the beginning I define the organizations … and the innovation process as a special market, specify their tasks and then analyze their regional and local impact …