This paper investigates FDI-related spillovers in Brazil for the period 1996-2005. In contrast to most previous recent … arise in Brazil. However, they did not arise simply as a consequence of general FDI-mediated technology transfer from MNC …

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to develop industrial capabilities …. However, over fifty years, India has had much more success in building indigenous capabilities in pharmaceuticals than Brazil … policy played a crucial role and the endogenous responses in the national system of innovation consisted of two parts. On the …

about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an … unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … persistence of innovation input and innovation output, a lag effect of the former on the latter and a feedback effect of the …

This paper addresses the question whether innovation is within reach for small enterprises in developing economies by … starts with reviewing definitions of innovation since Schumpeter. It concludes that newness, value creation and process are … time and again considered as the key-elements of innovation. Innovation, hence, may be summarized as the process of …

knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is … in many ways similar to, and reminiscent of the development of the many innovation policy tools in European countries and … regions. The first policy challenge, we refer to as "recherche sans frontières"; the second one as "innovation for local …