This paper examines the process of innovation within SMEs, focusing on a sample of firms in New South Wales, Australia … the prominent roles that they play in most economies. One way of doing so is through innovation. In this paper, we present … a more complex model of the innovation process than the traditional linear model involving R&D investment, what we term …

article, we study if outward orientation variables have a positive impact on technological innovation, which is one of the … technical licenses. The results suggest that exports increase significantly technological innovation. In addition, we found … causality in both ways. Technological innovation increases the probability of exporting. The other two channels; direct foreign …

This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms` innovation …, we find evidence that the public R&D finance has substantially influenced the innovation output of the firms that have … performance in terms of innovation. Those large firms that have more intensively collaborated with the SMS firm partners in their …

Companies face an expanding set of choices about where to locate their innovation activity, both within their home … of innovation activity : almost by definition, multiple locations per firm imply some degree of decentralization. Using … firm-level data on innovation output and the location of research and development (R&D) activity, we shed new light on the …

Stricter competition policy reduces expected payoffs before and after innovation, but reduces pre-innovation payoffs … relatively more than post-innovation payoffs, and therefore increases the equilibrium level of R&D activity: tough product …-market competition policy stimulates innovation. There is an inverted-U relationship between competition policy and expected welfare. The …

India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the institutional and geographic dimensions are …

of education still experience notable differences in terms of R&D and innovation. High-skilled migration, ultimately … capital accumulation and innovation are strategic complements, we show that allowing labor outflows may strengthen educational …

interactions between public policy and the innovation process. Discussions will cover all types of policy that affect the ability …