the impact of innovation on productivity, and a bridging of the gap between firm-level measures of productivity and …

. This is because fast growing small firms create new markets and jobs. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program …

Smart specialisation as a strategic approach for an innovation-driven regional development policy is extremely … policy approach. We will discuss the role of different modes of innovation and knowledge bases for different types of new … western parts of Norway, which has been successful economically despite low scores on the typical innovation indicators. The …

structure on innovation and output, as well as addressing mixed empirical results in this area. Both the effective R&D and total …

impede innovation. This argument, however, fails to recognize that modern family firms can benefit from capitalist … institutions that promote innovation. Using a comprehensive sample of U.S. family-owned public firms and patents for the period … from 1998 to 2010, we show that family ownership plays multiple roles in promoting innovation and its influence can be …

This essay uses Edmund Phelps new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs,Challenge, and Change … (Princeton University Press, 2013) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book is laudable for its … innovation and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of innovation has slowed. These flaws are …

We address the role of innovation networks on innovation in Canadian regions. In order to identify networks of … areas and those in the periphery: whereas the intensity of external network connections has no bearing on innovation amongst … peripheral regions. For central regions it tends to be factors internal to the region that are associated with innovation …

The geography of innovation is often analysed from the perspective of its association with territory. However, recent … research looking at Quebec shows that the nature of innovation and the propensity to innovate vary with distance from …