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 paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … innovation process: the choice of a firm to engage in innovation, its R&D intensity, its innovation output and labour … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway …

incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission's claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …

Conflicting trends confound the pharmaceutical industry. The productivity of pharmaceutical innovation has declined in … innovation prospects, some companies have sought refuge in mergers and acquisitions to disguise their dwindling prospects or gain … declining rate of innovation. In this paper, we consider the second of these causal relationships: the likely impact of the …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission’s claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …

We show a new way through which patent protection affects innovation. We show that patent protection may reduce the … final goods producers' incentives for innovation in industries with imperfectly competitive input markets. The input market …

considered as the basic core of the product development and innovation. Due to structural shortcomings, a great number of …

I investigate R&D efforts for process innovation in a monopoly with uncertain demand. Two different models are proposed …