Intellectual Property Regimes (IPRs) have been justified on the basis that they promote innovation, but it is not … Breeder’s Rights has promoted productive innovation in wheat. However, when we consider the best performing genetics of the …

adapt their strategies, focusing on innovation aspects in order to meet consumer requirements and to compete on the market …. The literature shows that firms’ market orientation and marketing capabilities are very important for innovation in food … industries to guarantee that innovation reflects market needs. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between …

innovation behavior of coffee growers. Drawing from network data that depict the internal and outbound connectedness of producers … innovation. The influence of buyers, according to our data, is focused on certification and quality aspects, whereas development … the role of private actors in innovation among agricultural producers and, hence, design development programs in such a …

Literature on innovation adoption mechanism has emphasised the positive effect of Single Farm Payments (SFP) and Rural … to strengthen the role of innovation in the European Union (EU). The objective of this paper is to identify the … determinants of the adoption of future innovation, in particular in connection to past innovation, and to assess the role of …

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …’ innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …

Using contests to generate innovation has and is widely used. Such contests often involve offering a prize that depends … inducing innovation. In a symmetric environment, we find that the reward should be set to c(x)/c′(x) where c is the cost of … producing an innovation of level x. In an asymmetric environment with two firms, we find that it is optimal to set different …

research and in particular to innovation, a key feature of economic competitiveness. Most of the previous studies have dealt …

creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

In a competitive environment, innovation management in new product development can be used as an efficient tool for … introduction and theoretical foundations of the resource-based view theory and innovation management, spatial effects are observed …