This paper investigates the relationship between innovation activities and market structure in German chemical industry … and innovation. This model is tested on the basis of empirical data on German firms from chemical industry taken from the … Community Innovation Survey from 2005 (CIS 2005). The results indeed show that a decrease in the number of competitors results …

Recent empirical studies find vast industry differences in how patent protection influences innovation and growth. An … the more intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model …

The process of innovation is driven by two main factors: new inventions and institutions supporting the transformation …

endogenous share opts for innovation and faces credit constraints in the subsequent expansion phase. We emphasize four results …: (i) R&D subsidies not only encourage innovation but also relax finance constraints and help innovative firms to exploit … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …

Innovation development is declared as one of the key objectives of social and economic policy in Russia. The purpose of … the work was to identify regions with the highest innovation capacity and developed regional innovation system, where … support of innovation activities would be the most effective. The hypothesis was that innovation capacity can be expressed as …

values, and lacks a sense of initiative, creativity and innovation. This, supposedly, is why the rural world is lagging … for a better understanding of rural innovation based on the recognition that rural people and communities are creative and … innovations they put in place in response to multifaceted rural development challenges. Rural innovation is much more than …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

. Interest is affecting now the works dedicated to innovation process, links between science and industry, relations between … users and producers or sub-contractors, national systems of innovation, innovative milieus, about also local labour markets …

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … circumstances in which there is either too much or too little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) the aggregate economy of N>2 …