theoretical and empirical growth literature identifies other major determinants of innovation and imitation activities (R … of education in innovation and imitation activities and that interacts education with the other major determinants of … technological change. The results reveal the importance of education for growth through technology diffusion and domestic innovation …

groups of 50 variables (knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship, business foundation, cultural framework, creative magnetism …

innovation. This paper examines Ethiopia’s smallholder agricultural sector from an innovation systems perspective to understand … uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research tools to paint a picture of the innovation landscape at both … innovation networks. …

The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it en-ables innovation. A … conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic … explanation for variations in IT payoffs among firms: The successful adoption of new IT leads to innovation. Depending on the be …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in … developing countries. It shows that patents are not likely to support innovation in developing countries, even though their non …

We study a model where innovation comes in two varieties: improvements on existing products, and new products that … the quantity of innovation but also its direction. We study two market structures. The first is the canonical one from the … consider a more concentrated industry, where all innovation and pricing for a given technology is monopolized. We study the …

?s main objective is to assess the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to the increase in cancer survival rates. Only … these differential rates of progress were partly attributable to different rates of pharmaceutical innovation for different … of pharmaceutical innovation to longevity increase I obtained in an earlier study, although that study was based on a …

search suggests that a low search cost can turn out to have detrimental incentives on innovation and new product introduction … as the low search cost erodes firms' market power, attenuating the profit from innovation. This usual model, however … search cost. In this environment, a low search cost could turn out to be favorable to innovation. At a low search cost …