. Equity is a preferable source of external finance for innovation than debt. It does not require collateral, does not …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

low by international standards and Italian firms take out only a small number of patents. External sources of innovation … different innovation sources increases the probability of collaboration; and that proximity is more important for small- and …

market share across firms when assessing creditworthiness. The model is able to capture features of innovation and diffusion …

ability to complete an innovation cycle by themselves). The questions the author poses in this article are: 1) Who were those … examines the social basis of data recovery and the history of this field; the practices of transferring innovation vertically …

-government, comment on the data from the Bank�s survey on local government computerization in order to see how innovation can affect …

competitiveness. The innovation gap, by international standards, is one of those problems. Business incubators are one of the …