patent-regime change on world-fair exhibits per capita, which we use as a proxy for non-patented innovation. We interpret …This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German …

We investigate how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant … innovation, we expect that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new … technology. However, we also expect that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often …

Diversity is considered key to research, innovation and growth. However, throughout the literature, the exact meaning … diversity and innovation directly. To fill in this gap in the literature, this paper offers an empirical analysis of the … relationship between technological diversity and the impact of innovation at the EU regional level whilst including different …

Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether …