Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production and mass...

Adding specific firm-level insights into the factors driving firms to subcontract operations to the informal sector, this article uses...

This paper studies the innovation productivity of academic researchers across their career advancement. Taking patents and invention...

This paper studies the innovation productivity of academic researchers across their career advancement. Taking patents and invention...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

This paper studies whether corruption has a greasing or a sanding effect on the production of innovation. The main novelty lies in...

Using panel data for a large cross-country sample, we consider the influences of FDI inflows, inward development aid, and immigration...

We investigate how a firm's export activity and country idiosyncrasies determine the firm's adoption of environmental innovation (EI)...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using...

This research contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship by studying whether design patents and utility patents have similar...

In December 2018, G20 leaders committed themselves to fair and sustainable development, focusing, among other issues, on the labour...

The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using...

This paper uses firm-level survey responses across more than 100 emerging and developing countries to examine whether female managers...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better...

This paper examines the determinants of identity theft, focusing especially on the influence of internet diffusion. Results, based on...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better...

We establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting...

Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from standard grant schemes towards a...

This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes...