Innovation and Peripherality: An Empirical Comparative Study of SMEs in...

Economic Geography;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......This article examines the rates of innovative activity of small and medium-sized enterprises...consistently present higher rates of innovative activity than do their peripheral counterparts...2002) and related higher levels of innovative activity to higher levels of regional ...

Why don't recessions encourage more R&D spending?

Chicago Fed Letter;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......may not accurately reflect changes in the price of R&D. The two data series track each other closely, suggesting changes in inflation-adjusted R&D expenditures truly reflect changes in the extent of R&D. To appreciate how R&D activity varies over the ...

Grant Black, The Geography of Small Firm Innovation.(Book Review)

International Small Business Journal;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......measurements, the study examines innovative activity aggregated across six...innovate, the role of R&D labs and the influences...function, to evaluate the innovative activity. This implies econometric...focusing on the measure of innovative activity among high-tech ...

Measuring regional knowledge resources: what do knowledge occupations have...

Innovation: Management, Policy, & Practice;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......innovation literature (R&D scientific employment...activities to encourage innovative activity as well as promoting...with high levels of R&D such as pharmaceuticals...however, generating innovative activity needs to be the focus...innovations to firm ...

Do only big cities innovate? Technological maturity and the location of...

Economic Review (Kansas City);  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......regions are the most conducive to innovative activity. Large and densely populated places...places that would like to compete for innovative activity and the benefits of a knowledge...seeking ways to enhance regional innovative activity. The first section of this article...

Science doesn't have monopoly on innovation.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  September 14, 2004 ;     321 words ......science and technology because it is simpler to measure than innovative activity and, as a result, policy to deal with it is easier to...to come up with a strategy that embraces all forms of innovative activity. But it will need to cover every aspect of running a business...

Will restructuring Hungarian companies innovate?

Comparative Economic Studies;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......may not be sufficient to stimulate innovative activity (Berliner, 1988, p. 292). Many of...improved performance expected from innovative activity was already built into future output...companies, are important engines of innovative activity in market economies (Berliner, 1976...

Spillovers, rivalry and R&D investment.

Southern Economic Journal;  July 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......threat of spillovers affects R&D investments and consequently reduces innovative activity. Imitators spend resources...likely to have little private R&D investment and might have to rely on public R&D funding. While patents are...long run. The presence of ...

The Changing Composition of Innovative Activity in the U.S.--A Portrait...

Research-Technology Management;  July 1, 2001 ;     165 words ...The Changing Composition of Innovative Activity in the U.S.--A Portrait Based on Patent Analysis; Diana Hicks, Tony Breitzman, Dominic Olivastro, and Kimberly Hamilton; Research...

Innovation, imitation, and social welfare.

Southern Economic Journal;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......more specifically copying, for innovative activity and social welfare. In part, it...potential effects of imitation on innovative activity have long been both a theoretical...imitation and its implications for innovative activity |4; 7; 2~. There has also been work...

Greater visibility for R&D. (Corporate Strategy).(research and development...

Research-Technology Management;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......economist at Economy.com, West Chester, Pennsylvania. R&D Under One Code In NAICS, compared to the old SIC system, R&D activities are clustered under one NAICS code...Engineering, and Life Sciences, 54171, brings together all R&D activity in the hard sciences into one ...

Incentives for R&D need clear rules.

New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  June 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......seamlessly this programme will dovetail into the R&D tax credit incentive introduced in last year's business tax package. Tax credit v FFFThe R&D tax credit incentive offers a 15 per cent credit...benefits to the wider economy. The broader impact of R&D incentives has ...

Secrecy versus patenting.

RAND Journal of Economics;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......than rewarding the costs of the innovative activity. 1. Introduction * The standard...secret, it can stimulate both the innovative activity and information disclosure and...the innovators first invest in R&D and then, after finding out...corresponding increase in the ...

Euro cash grants on their way to small creative companies.(News)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  February 21, 2005 ;     182 words ......to pounds 1,000. Applications are being invited for Innovation Grants, a 50% contribution towards any valid growth or innovative activity. That could range from developing promotional material and equipment to going to trade fairs or conferences. To qualify...

Necessity: mother of innovation.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  August 24, 2008 ;     107 words ......The Australian Government's review of innovation has attracted strong interest. Some industries are performing well but innovative activity has declined as the economy has slowed. Better data on the success of innovation incentives is needed. Publication Date...