This paper analyzes the effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the innovation of European firms …. The results indicate a considerable increase in post-acquisition innovation in the merged entity. This is mainly driven by … inventors based in the acquirer's country, while innovation in the target's country tends to decline. The asymmetry of effects …

the effects of financial barriers to the innovation propensity of Italian SMEs. Employing direct measures of financial … significantly lower than sound companies (-30%). Results document the existence of a feedback-effect of innovation on firmsÕ … of soft information in mitigating financial obstacles to innovation by improving the financial condition of more opaque …

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …

, Quadruple, Quintuple, and N-tuple helices, had been proposed. Systemness of growing number of innovation system patterns can be … institutional spheres with complement of an additional actor, Media, is a step to the classification of helix innovation system …

statement about a water-innovation. The mode of research must be ‘action research’. The specific form and management of multiple …

of the finance-innovation nexus, analyzing the feed-back effects between the real and financial sides of the economic … technological change, demand and finance along the structural change process triggered by technological innovation. Copyright …

This paper investigates the impact of small world properties and the size of largest component on innovation …-world structure benefits innovation but it is limited to a special range after which the effects inversed and shorter path length … always correlates with increased innovation output. Our findings extend the current literature and they can be implicated for …

The rationale and policy proposed by two collaborating projects is to increase innovation through improved connectivity … enhanced product or service innovation." We test this hypothesis by referring to the EIM Business and Policy Research [EIM … probit analysis to identify a strong link between connectivity factors and increased product or service innovation. We also …