The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation … activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen … as the main precondition of successful innovation. However, the successful transformation of R&D investment into …

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …

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 …

process of innovation production, we uncover substantial heterogeneity in the impact of business taxation for various R …

This paper aims to examine how the diversity of global engagement is related to firms' participation in innovation … activities, i.e., foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Incidences of innovation for ten innovation activities are … computed. The incidence of innovation was used to examine the extent to which different global engagement groups participate in …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …