The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

better suited in explaining the patterns of innovation, technological change, and the growth in very dynamic industries. In … this context, our article reviews the evidence of Luigi Orsenigo’s contribution to the economics of innovation, to the … tradition of history-friendly models, and to the discussion on the sectoral system of innovation. It concludes by pointing at …

The diffusion of innovative activities has been very fast in China since the mid-1990s. The literature nonetheless … suggests that internationally-relevant innovation may have delayed gaining embeddedness in some places, depending on the … innovation and investigates these linkages across Chinese prefectural cities. Four research hypotheses are stated, one for each …

This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation … regression techniques. Our results suggest the different patterns attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up …

patterns of innovation-related activities, we examine the effects of factors both internal and external to the firm. Analyzing … CIS data, we find that external factors are more helpful in explaining innovation strategies than internal factors. Our … econometric model can quite adequately predict innovation strategies, implying that firm-specific factors might not dominate other …