Whereas various drivers of the international innovative activity have been studied in the literature, our understanding of the contributions...

In order to better understand why some nations are more innovative than others, this paper considers the influence of socio-historic...

Based on information from a large sample of German researchers and using business ownership and nascent entrepreneurship as alternative...

Adding to the research on the corruption and gender nexus, this paper contributes by several dimensions, including: (a) measurement of...

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

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

This paper examines whether corruption acts to “grease” or “sand” firms' exit. Corruption could facilitate exit when it is a tax that distorts...

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

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

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

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

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 increase in...

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

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

Using data on 135 countries, this paper studies the determinants of process innovation introduction, focusing on the impacts of economic and...

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

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

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

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