Serial innovators are long-lived, small firms with a substantial, public record of innovative success. This paper argues that such firms are often specialist suppliers of technology. We draw on Arora, Fosfuri and Gambardella's framework concerning markets for technology to explain the patenting characteristics of these firms. We find that the firms produce technology that in comparison to large...

In this paper, we observe that developed countries are generally equipped with innovation capabilities and produce major chunk of the world’s knowledge and technology. The contribution of developing countries, on the other hand, is insignificant, and most of them far behind the global technological front. More specifically, we empirically observe that the developing world neither contributes su...

We are surrounded today by “connected things.” While it was little more than five years ago that the internet of things (IoT) was an intriguing new concept, it is now well-entrenched in virtually every sector of the economy — including healthcare. A fast-emerging sub-sector of the phenomenon is the internet of medical things (IoMT). According to research firm Frost & Sullivan, $22.5 billion was...

We investigate the impact of actors’ positions within regional innovator networks on their innovative performance. The networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when looking at innovators that are...

I provide an economic model with endogenous movements in TFP as a tool for understanding a rationale behind the productivity decline in New Zealand. Cohort quality, measured by a country's human capital distribution determines opportunities for growth. Vintages of human skills are subject to network effects. These network effects, while important for productivity, have the side effect of introd...

This paper investigates the comparability of the 1999 Canadian Survey of Innovation with the European Community Innovation Surveys for 1997/1998 (CIS2). Four European countries are compared to Canada: France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain. Differences in terms of design and implementation of the survey and formulation of the questionnaire are pointed out. Proposals are made to harmonize the two d...

The literature is inconclusive as to whether Marshallian specialization or Jacobian diversification externalities favour regional innovativeness. The specialization argument poses that regional specialization towards a particular industry improves innovativeness in that industry. Regional specialization allows for knowledge to spill over among similar firms. By contrast, the diversification the...