The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing … innovation activity of a firm, including structural characteristics (size, industry, etc.), competitive environment (intensity of … competition and type of main competitors), changes in financial position of a firm, it's pre-crisis performance and innovation …

Financing innovation presents informational and control problems for the financier, and different solutions are used … in innovation during the 2007-8 financial crisis for both. We extend prior theories of external financing’s effect on … aggregate funding. Empirical results are consistent with our theory: external dependence and asset intangibility had a limited …

This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth across four Latin American … countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation surveys. Specifically, we relate …

various re-elaborations of the human capital theory. The first part of the paper reviews critically this literature and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

of innovation practices. It analyses whether the entrepreneurial innovation capability of firms is stimulated through the … relationships developed with external partners. The data of 2nd Community Innovation Survey of EUROSTAT is used in a logistic model …. In the estimation process of the Logit function, the entrepreneurial innovation capability is considered as the answer …

of innovation along very short paths, also constrains firms continuously and can lead to a fast reversal of their …

the methodology proposed by the European Commission in the study about the “European Innovation Scoreboard 2007 … of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …

the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …