Very little empirical evidence exists on the relationship between intellectual property rights and innovation. Existing … studies tend to be indirect and do not consider the influence of IPRs on innovation per se; nor do they adequately allow for … a strong positive influence on innovation. …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution <p> to innovation is crucial, a …

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …