This paper explores the relationship between firms' cooperation and their propensity toward environmental innovation … and of vertical, horizontal and lateral cooperative agreements on environmental innovation propensity. I test these … hypotheses through a large scale dataset, the Community Innovation Survey for Spanish firms (PITEC), through the use of …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …

they matter. We first characterize YICs in the sample of innovation active firms. We show that firms that combine newness … financial constraints, both internal and external, as an important factor hampering their innovation activities, significantly … more so than other innovation active firms. This access to finance problem is an often used motive for government …