PUBLICATION | 2026 Design, innovation and performance in European firms This paper provides some new theoretical speculations and empirical evidence on the relationship between design, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments...
PUBLICATION | 2026 The short-run effect of Knowledge intensive greenfield FDI on new domestic entry Existing evidence on the impact of foreign direct investment on domestic economies remains ambiguous. Positive technology spillovers of foreign investment may be outweighed by negative crowding...
PUBLICATION | 2026 Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between an entrepreneur's experience and education and his/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the crossroads...
PUBLICATION | 2026 Persistent heterogeneity of R&D intensities within sectors: Evidence and policy implications Do firms in the same sector converge towards the same R&D intensities? Previous research has often assumed this to be true. A closer examination, using microdata...
PUBLICATION | 2026 European R&D networks: A snapshot from the 7th EU Framework Programme Recent empirical studies have investigated the territorial impact of Europe's research policies, in particular the contribution of the European Framework Programmes to the integration of a European Research Area. This paper...
PUBLICATION | 2026 Manufacturing the future: is the manufacturing sector a driver of R&D, exports and productivity growth? Many industrialized countries in Europe and North America have experienced a steady decline in the manufacturing sector over the last few decades. Amid growing concerns that outsourcing...
PUBLICATION | 2026 Firm market valuation and intellectual property assets This paper investigates the relationship between the innovative activity of the top corporate R&D investors worldwide and their valuation on the financial markets. The empirical analysis is based on a sample of more...
PUBLICATION | 2016 Regulation, red tape and location choices of top R&D investors This paper investigates how product and labour market regulations and red tape affect the way in which top corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide organise...
PUBLICATION | 2026 Corporate R&D intensity decomposition: Theoretical, empirical and policy issues Research and development (R&D) indicators are increasingly used not only to facilitate international comparisons, but also as targets for policies stimulating research. An example of such an indicator...
PUBLICATION | 2026 EU corporate R&D intensity gap: What has changed over the last decade? This paper contributes with new findings to the literature on corporate research and development (R&D) intensity decomposition by examining the effects of several parameters on R&D intensity and investigating its comparative...
