This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

tradeoffs between supporting R&D and supporting diffusion in the presence of limited public funds to promote innovation merit …

This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

able to gain and maintain world leadership in innovation and technology while the latter continues to lag. Notwithstanding … the magnitude of this innovation gap and the political emphasis placed upon it on both sides of the Atlantic, very little … differences between the two continents in the quantity and quality of the major ‘inputs’ to innovation: R&D investments and human …

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 …

in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …

firms. Specifically, we explore the impact of vertical R&D cooperation on firms' process innovation, outputs, market prices … integrated industry. Contribution & Value Added: Firms' process innovation benefits from the vertical integration of the industry …

The paper aims to show how policy makers can stimulate firms' cooperation with research organisations in innovation. We …

have influenced the direction of innovation over the last four decades. Our findings suggest that the demography of …

The goal of this paper is to present a formal model of firm innovation that simultaneously analyzes innovation factors … serves here as an input measure of firm innovation. R&D intensity can be defined as a ratio of firm's R&D spending to the … an elasticity-based model of firm innovation. Further, within the model framework, it is shown how horizontal R …