Innovation

We investigate the idea that increased use of ICT has facilitated outsourcing of business services, and that these are complementary activities in production because they allow firms to focus on their core competencies.

This paper investigates co-operative research activity by firms using data from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey for four countries, France, Germany, Spain and the UK.

UK firms increasingly locate their research and development abroad. This article examines whether this is bad news for the UK.

We examine whether firms locate their R&D labs near universities, and whether those that do are more likely to co-operate with, or source knowledge from universities.

We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research.

In this paper we use new data to describe how firms from 15 European countries organise their innovative activities.

This paper provides the first firm-level econometric evidence on the skill-bias of ICT in developing countries using a unique new dataset of manufacturing firms in Brazil and India.

We examine the 'home bias' of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations.

We investigate the relationship between the location of private sector R&D labs and university research departments in Great Britain.

This project provides empirical evidence on firms' demographic characteristics and the extent of specialisation and vertical integration of British firms across industries.