at enhancing the innovation capacities of firms. In turn, increasing in innovation capacities give rise to new business … when significant business model innovation is at stake. Our paper discusses the role played by local institutions while … impediments as they act as innovation intermediaries. We base our research on the study of BRIO, a publicly funded collaborative …

A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production … offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We employ propensity score matching to compare R&D and innovation activities of …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …