-income countries managed to catch up or fall behind depended mainly on their ability to develop their 'innovation system'. …

This paper investigates (a) the determinants of innovation performance and (b) the impact of innovation performance on … Community Innovation Surveys (CIS). The use of a wide spectrum of indicators helps to test the robustness of the specification … of the innovation equation as well as the robustness of the impact of innovation on economic performance. We find a clear …

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …

property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic …

ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …

from suppliers, customers, joint ventures, competitors and public research organisations to innovative firms. The focus is … on the latter, since they are an essential component of National Innovation Systems. The importance of proximity for … sourcing knowledge from public research increases with the quality and output of domestic public research organisations and …

incentives than "coordination." Depending on the innovation outcome, workers' wage bill is maximised under centralisation" if … holds innovative activity down at its lowest level. Labour market policy can spur innovation by either decentralising …