This Paper examines how different unionization structures affect firms' innovation incentives and industry employment …: ‘decentralization’ carries higher investment incentives than ‘coordination’. Labour market policy can spur innovation by decentralizing …

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the .revealed …

belief in the innovation-boosting effect of product market deregulation such as taken into account in the Lisbon Strategy. …

understanding the CEE convergence process. Based on a genuinely adopted innovation driven endogenous growth model, expected effects … growth performance suggests that Central European Economies (CEE) economies have found alternative channels to foster … economic growth. Authors suggest that co-operation between Western and Eastern European companies play a key role in …

We explore the consequences of the utility requirement on speed of innovation and welfare. A weak utility requirement … stage innovation with free entry and trade secrecy, we identify cases when patentability is beneficial to society. Although … and innovation costs are high. However, patentability becomes less desirable as basic research costs decrease. We also …