Several studies have highlighted ICT as a driver of firm productivity in developed countries. However, the evidence about the impacts of ICT on services and manufacturing and particularly for developing countries is scarce. This paper focuses on understanding the determinants of investments in...

The paper adds to the scattered empirical evidence on the role of obstacles to innovation in a three-fold way. First, we correct for the usual sample selection bias by filtering out firms not interested in innovation from ‘potential innovators’. Second, we assess what mostly affects firms’...

This paper examines how firm age can affect a firm’s perception of the obstacles (deterring vs. revealed) that hamper and delay innovation. Using a comprehensive panel of Spanish firms for the period 2004-2011, the empirical analysis conducted shows that distinct types of obstacle are...

Link and Scott provide a statistical assessment of the employment growth associated with public support of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Over the last few decades, territorial approaches have generally tried to explain how regions have specialised their production systems around specific path dependencies and technological innovation; how their specialisation enabled them to compete locally in the global market. Some...

This paper addresses the issue of updating a research agenda about territorial innovation models (TIMs) such as innovative milieus, industrial districts, regional innovation systems, etc. The theoretical shift from innovation studies to the knowledge economy is taken into account by the...

Achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 remains fundamental to limiting global warming to 1.5 °C this century and mitigating the catastrophic effects of climate change. Policymakers have indicated that the transition towards a renewable energy economy is the catalyst for achieving this....

Research on innovation strategy, which focuses on what type of innovation that firms decide to implement, has primarily focused on dichotomic (yes or no) options and is mostly based on the determinants of technological (product and process) innovations. This paper extends the study of innovation...

Using the Chilean Innovation Survey for 2019-2020, this work studies the effects of different knowledge sources on a range of innovation outputs. Findings reveal distinct impacts of sourcing information from competitors, customers, and government agencies on product, process, marketing,...

El presente trabajo muestra cómo las tres empresas más representativas delsector metalúrgico semi-integrado de Boyacá se han visto abocadas a explorarpermanentemente los avances tecnológicos que se originan en el mercadomundial del acero, así como las estrategias empresariales para...