The use of public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently … to investigate whether this reform stimulated innovation in the business sector. Across a wide set of specifications …

In Germany, R&D subsidies are an important tool to support innovation in the private sector. This paper studies the …

financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we … find that having relations with a more severely affected bank seriously hampers firms’ current innovation activities due to … initiate new product and process innovations and to reallocate human resources to innovation during the financial crisis. …

development. The authors examine the exceptionally fast growth in domestic innovation efforts in Korea, Taiwan (China), Singapore … Investment Climate Surveys to investigate sources of technological innovation in the other middle- and low-income East Asian … national and regional knowledge stocks as a foundation for innovation. …

innovation activity in China. The results of the analysis suggest that private and collectively owned firms with foreign capital … contrast, better access to credit is an important channel through which FDI affects the innovation of domestic private and …

While innovation matters for competitiveness it may expose firms to survival risks. Using plant-product data for Chile … on the innovation-exit relationship: only innovators that retain diversified sources of revenue or face lower market risk … which helps to rationalize their innovation decision despite the increased risk of exit. …

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Innovation in Socio …-Historical Context -- 1.1. Meaning and significance of the word “innovation” -- 1.1.1. The origins of innovation -- 1.1.2. Innovation … as the inverse of tradition -- 1.1.3. Innovation versus invention and creation -- 1.1.4. Innovation and creativity: a …