interviewing managers of individual farms. Most of the farmers - managers of the surveyed households, recognized that European … integration has a significant effect on the rate of implementation of innovation. In many cases it was a factor in forcing changes …

Are new versions of products necessarily better? We analyze product innovation by a firm that engages in research and … development designed to improve an existing product, the outcome of which is uncertain. If the firm adopts the innovation its … may improve total welfare by inducing more innovation adoption and thereby mitigating the standard monopoly …

firms cooperate with external actors in the field of technological innovation, and if so, with what type of cooperation … data provided by the Technological Innovation Panel in the 2006-2008 period for firms in the automotive sector. We estimate …

This paper provides an empirical verification of the relationship between innovation adoption and productivity growth …. After a brief revision of the literature about the concept and main determinants of innovation adoption/diffusion, the paper … study the impact that innovation adoption may have on productivity growth through a regression analysis. The analysis is …

financially constrained and apply for a loan at their house bank, we can show that Innovation activities are further reduced and …