Innovation and Firm Performance: Econometric Explorations of Survey Data
Автор:Alfred Kleinknecht, Pierre Mohnen Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0333961099 The emergence of new firm-level data, including the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS), has led to a surge of studies on innovation and firm behaviour. This book documents progress in four interrelated fields: investigation of the use of newindicators of innovation output; investigation of determinants of innovative behavior; the role of spillovers, the public knowledge infrastructure and research and development collaboration; and the impact of innovation on firm performance. Written by aninternational group of contributors, the studies are based on agriculture and the manufacturing and service industries in Europe and Canada and provide new insights into the driving forces behind innovation.