innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the recent path followed by the innovation indicators in Brazil based on the data … available in the four editions of the Brazilian Innovation Survey (PINTEC) issued by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and … upon a theoretical discussion on the potentials and constraints of innovation indicators and, in particular, of innovation …

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

We study social learning and innovation in an overlapping generations model, emphasizing the trade-off between marginal … innovation (combining existing technologies) and radical innovation (breaking new ground). We characterize both short-term and … long-term dynamics of innovation, and the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge. Innovation cycles emerge …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

greatest explosion of financial innovation the world had ever seen. Financial fragility grew until the economy collapsed into … the global financial crisis. At the same time, we saw that much (or even most) of the financial innovation was directed … attention to increasing funding of the innovation process. For that reason, we will look not only to Minsky's ideas on the …