initial inventor on the one hand and overall innovation incentives on the other hand. We find that incomplete patent … protection can positively affect overall innovation incentives while maintaining the advantageousness of patent protection over …

This paper investigates the relationship between innovation activities and market structure in German chemical industry … and innovation. This model is tested on the basis of empirical data on German firms from chemical industry taken from the … Community Innovation Survey from 2005 (CIS 2005). The results indeed show that a decrease in the number of competitors results …

Recent empirical studies find vast industry differences in how patent protection influences innovation and growth. An … the more intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model …

The process of innovation is driven by two main factors: new inventions and institutions supporting the transformation …

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 …

The aim of this study is to clarify what factors affect the innovation activity of small and medium-sized enterprises … differences in innovation activities. Many studies show remarkable differences between branches. Additionally, the resources of … firms give an unequal starting point for innovation activities. Our study observed that the differences between regions were …

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …