STEM

We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme were associated with increased product market competition.

The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation on innovation is ambiguous, and empirical evidence has thus far been inconclusive.

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.