This discussion paper reviews the literature on experiences with innovation under the existing emissions trading … schemes in the USA. The basic result from this review is that the innovation effects triggered by emissions trading have been … approaches that measure innovation behaviour appear to be at least as important for the understanding of the issue as those …

sector level, focusing on their role in innovation processes, little attention has been paid to the knowledge workers within … the micro-level are central to understand how KIBS can drive innovation in regional and national economies by contributing …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and external R&D on SMEs innovation performance … SMEs. In comparison, only external R&D showed positive association to product and process innovation for Pakistani SMEs … research study for the first time has examined the Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities. The implication of this …

innovation and technical change is, however, not much studied. The existing work on the effect of immigrants on innovation is … the innovation of the receiving countries, it has much less to say about the general effect of immigrants, or of low …-educated immigrants. In this paper, we make an attempt to partly fill the gap concerning the effects of overall immigration on innovation …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

studied for a new type of innovation where new technologies reduce emissions of a specific pollutant but at the same time …-holding firm. This result carries over to other types of innovation. Taxes are inefficient if technologies produce perfect …

The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …