There is no shortage of dialogues and commentaries extolling the need for more innovation to regenerate sagging national productivity growth. However, hard evidence on whether or not innovation makes a difference is largely absent because most firm-level studies are drawn from cross-sectional...

Innovation represents the downstream embodiment of knowledge. It is the concrete application of knowledge to enhance our material well-being. However, knowledge and innovation are fuzzy, intangible concepts with ill-defined borders. We know that its quality matters but our difficulty in research...

As with most of my contemporaries, I sit and push buttons, read from a screen, talk to people and make black marks on a page all day at work, yet somehow I contribute to an economy that provides goods, services and life comforts that are beyond the imagination of even my more recent ancestors. I...

This paper reports on the construction of a new database – called TM-Link – that contains 12 million trade mark applications and registrations across six jurisdictions – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union. A new feature of the...

Innovation — the introduction of new-to-the-firm or new-to-the-world products and methods of production — is a necessary requirement for ongoing competition. Without innovation, other types of competitive action — advertising, training or price cutting — are subject to diminishing...

This paper presents the main findings from a small qualitative survey of the main factors associated with the creation and usage of five industrial capabilities in leading Victorian sectors. The capabilities included advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT), design, information and...

The amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and...