). The empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that barriers to entry, aimed at reducing competition, lower research …

more closely at the role and evolution of the structural and intrinsic component for each pair-wise comparison, by looking … to be especially aggressive in terms of innovation if they want to enter and succeed in markets where incumbents already …

source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

, despite a rich set of research insights stressing the importance of non-R&D types of knowledge in innovation processes. While … democracy. Yet, a closer look reveals important elements of diversity in (a) the structure of their national innovation system …, (b) the direction of recent structural changes, (c) innovation performance, and (d) patterns of business …

Given the role that innovation plays as an engine for economic development, we examined the enabling factor of … innovation. A sample of 40 African countries over the period 1996-2012 was employed; and our baseline equation was estimated … effectiveness and regulatory quality are two institutional measures that have the most equivalent impact on innovation. This result …

How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … when combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation …

between the research and enterprise sector and the predominant role of public research institutes. In order to increase the … international competitiveness of enterprises, both countries changed their innovation policy and created incentives for a closer … cooperation among actors in the national innovation system (NIS) and supported the set up of new intermediaries. This contribution …