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

shares. We investigate how pharmaceutical firms use mergers and acquisitions to boost their innovation performance which has … successful in their innovation endeavours than firms with other goal orientation. Further, the firms' prior acquisition … experience appears to aid their innovation performance. However, we found that target size can affect the post …

process of innovation production, we uncover substantial heterogeneity in the impact of business taxation for various R …

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …

In the literature, it is widely discussed whether the pharmaceutical industry is going through an innovation crisis …

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

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

"Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs", code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs' weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …

finance availability constraints actually spurred innovation. Finally, the economy-wide effects of greater economic freedom …