A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production … offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We employ propensity score matching to compare R&D and innovation activities of …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …&D has been examined for both countries. The study is unique in comparing Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation … could benefit from more bottom-up, decentralized approaches that reduce barriers to entry, minimize lock-in advantages for …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …

Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves …, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy … eliminates useful information, suggesting that all of the observable signals about corporate innovation should be included in …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …