How does policy affect innovation and the digital economy? We revisit how standard product market regulation affects innovation and develop a novel framework for thinking about digital regulation. Using new establishment-level micro-data across 12 countries between 1998 and 2012, this paper...

This article frames the historical record concerning the activities of the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center as an illustration of the US government's role in the development of structural and functional features of an embryonic technological innovation system. While the Center's...

Business innovation is viewed by many as a solution to Canada’s ailing productivity performance. One of the more troubling aspects of Canada’s innovation track record is that businesses spend relatively little on research and development (R&D) despite having access to some of the world’s...

Following a recent paper by Filippetti and Archibugi [Filippetti, A., Archibugi, D., 2011. Innovation in times of crisis: National systems of innovation, structure and demand. Research Policy 40(2), 179–192], this article aims to contribute to the sparse literature on the impacts of the recent...

One of the foundational assumptions of patent law is that imbuing inventions with intellectual property rights (IPR) is necessary to bring forth innovation. We test this foundational assumption by examining the impact of IPR on commercialization of university research. Using the full set of US...

Spanish Abstract: Resultados de investigación realizada durante 2012, orientada a identificar cambios que la Ley Reguladora del Uso de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones en la Administración de Justicia (LU TIC AJ) implica para la modernización de la Administración de...

The United States Department of Commerce, Technology Administration provided support to the Phoenix Center to study the causes and potential solutions of the Valley of Death for technology development in the United States under Study Contract No. SB1341-05-2-0023 administered by KT Consulting,...

Ponencia que muestra los resultados de estudio realizado sobre la implantación de las arquitecturas y marcos de interoperabilidad europeos existentes hasta la fecha, especialmente aquéllos maduros y con contribuciones destacadas, como SAGA en Alemania, GIF y posteriormente UKRA en el Reino...

This paper investigates economic and subjective effects of public business assistance delivered to nascent entrepreneurs in Germany. Employing cluster analysis, we explore the actual scope and intensity of business assistance used. Then we analyze predictors of take-up and perceived usefulness...

Faced with the technological changes and with the rise of international competition, the competitiveness of firms is based more and more on innovation. In this context, the new innovating firms are regarded as source of competitive dynamism. However, these firms encounter difficulties to finance...