This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate for the first time the links between innovation activities …

Aiming at both low prices and innovation, policy makers and economists have long argued about the optimal intensity of … innovation due to the low appropriability of rents established economic approaches advocate competition to be conducive to … innovation. This reflects the dispute in economics between Schumpeterian and neoclassical theories. Aghion et al. (2005) offered …

refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this … cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …

process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … innovation. This notsignificant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However, the …

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

spurring innovation (Section 5). The third group focuses on the financing of innovation (Section 6). Section 7 concludes. …

across the non-financial sector, in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in infrastructure, and in R&D and innovation …