The analysis of innovation and the evolution of industries evolution has witnessed major progress in several areas …. Contributions at the empirical, appreciative, econometric and modelling levels have greater advanced our understanding of innovation … are required for a better understanding of the relationship between innovation and the evolution of industries: the …

The main goal of this paper is to assess the impact of product innovation on the economic performance of firms … dataset on Italian firms we estimate, by means of propensity scores matching methods, a positive and significant “innovation …. We also find that this innovation premium is particularly large for small firms and even more so when considering new …

fundamental determinants of the patterns of innovation, demand structure plays indeed a crucial role in preventing the emergence …

In this paper we present a model of the long term dynamics of market structure and innovation in the pharmaceutical …

, mainly on concentration and technical change and innovation. It has also shown that the consequences of policies may …

-1995. We use patent applications at the European Patent Office to measure innovation and their citations to trace knowledge …-sectoral spillovers are an important determinant of innovation. …

literature on innovation and industrial economics -such as knowledge links and the structure of competition and collaboration in …