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

The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …

We examine the relationship between environmental regulations and innovation, using data from UK manufacturing industry … during 2000–2006. We estimate a dynamic model of innovation behaviour, and explicitly account for the likely endogeneity of …

Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO2 … whether complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological … environmental productivity. We merge new EU innovation and WIOD data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO2 performances at …

<em>Innovation and performance in the long run: the case of Europe</em> - In this article we present the results of a … recent work on the long-term mechanisms of innovation and performance in Europe which contributes to the European innovation … scoreboard. Data from different waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) have been used as an instrument for understanding …