the focus is on the creation of new technology, that is, innovation. Low skill firms are hypothesized to benefit less from … innovation activities, particularly collaborative research and development (R&D). In other words, skills and innovation are … complementary. Complementarities associated with innovation may generate persistent differences in firm behavior and performance …

Insights from industrial organization, Schumpeterian innovation, and economic development theories are used to try to …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …