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

, knowledge is formalized, new technology replaces old and patents increase innovation incentives. In the other, knowledge is not … formalized, old technology coexists with new, patents decrease innovation incentives and firms sometimes freely exchange … knowledge. The equilibrium changes as technology improves over a life-cycle, affecting firm strategy, innovation policy …

This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …

United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The … apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation? A model is introduced in which … equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The …

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

This paper presents an endogenous growth model for two regions with assymetric initial stocks of knowledge. The novel … features of the paper lie in modelling the differentiation of regions into an innovator and an imitator as endogenous, and … rate allow the initially knowledge-scarce imitator region to accumulate sufficient knowledge and switch to innovation, at …

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …