Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

analyse the role of innovation inputs (R&D), intermediate outputs (patents) and outcomes (product and process innovations) as …This paper examines the relationship between firms' innovation activities and the hierarchy of financing behaviours. We … identify the effect of innovation, alongside the size of the firm, its age and its human capital, on the order of directly …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …