This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to establish a formal relationship between innovation and performance … the firm and to the domestic market enhances firms´ productivity and sales. In the same way, innovation in management and … invest in R&D. We also study the factors behind the firms´ decision to invest in innovation, the intensity of such investment …

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 …

analyse between exporting, innovation activities and productivity. A firm's decision to start exporting into new destinations … the firm's innovation from which 0.6 percent is due to the endogenous investment in innovative activities and 24.4 percent …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

appreciation of socially optimal patent law. Shifting the law in favor of patent owners, a policy to encourage innovation, seemed …To encourage invention, society awards inventors exclusive rights through patents. Patent law trades off incentives to … invent new technologies against reduced access to already invented technology. However, patent law being national, it is …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … German firms from manufacturing and services sectors I show that the perceived effectiveness of patent protection positively …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … German firms from manufacturing and services sectors I show that the perceived effectiveness of patent protection positively …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … German firms from manufacturing and services sectors I show that the perceived effectiveness of patent protection positively …