Although never rigorously tested, it has become a sort of accepted wisdom amongst social scientists that government decentralization offers key advantages for innovators. Decentralized governments are widely seen as agile, competitive, and well structured to adapt to innovation’s gale of...

Das vorliegende Arbeitspapler fasst die Ergebnisse einer im Sommer 1988 durchgeführten schriftlichen Expertenbefragung zu den Bestimmunsfaktoren von Forschung und Entwicklung in der Schweizer Industrie zusammen. Von den 940 beragten Untemehmungen haben 358 Oder ca. 40% geantwortet; sie waren in...

With ever increasing global integration, productivity improvements depend not only on in-house innovative efforts, but on those of international partners as well. This paper explores the impact of foreign R\&D on productivity and technical efficiency of countries by considering three major...

This paper examines the commercialization propensities of individual inventors' patents. Exploiting a peculiarity of the US patent system, concerning patent renewal fees in order to obtain small or large entity status, we are able to distinguish patents that become part of a large corporation's...

Appropriating the economic returns from technical innovations is very important for individual inventors and innovators, as well as for technical change in individual markets and for the whole economy. Since appropriability is difficult to measure directly, many researchers have been trying to...

This paper studies the effects of spatial concentration of innovation activity on local production of patents in the US. In doing so, we augment the standard knowledge production function with a structure that allows for spatial effects, accounting along with bilateral also for multilateral...

This paper adds to the literature on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's net effects by looking at whether its passage was associated with a change in innovation and patenting. Its effects are separated into temporary uncertainty and changes in long term investment incentives in a dynamic programming...

This paper analyses the importance of different technological inputs (R&D and human capital) and different spillovers in explaining the differences in patenting among Spanish regions in the period 1986-2003. The analysis is based on the estimation of a knowledge production function. A region’s...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the effectiveness of alternative mechanisms of protecting the competitive advantages of new or improved products and processes. The analysis is based on I survey I conducted among 358 firms in 127 different (four-digit) industries in...

I empirically investigate the non-linear relationship between inequality and innovation in a Schumpeterian setup where growth is expressed by the rate of innovations. In this framework income distribution plays a role in determining the dynamic market sizes for innovators and therefore is a...