As an emerging and transforming market, China has emphasized the key role of
technological innovation and industrial structural change in economic growth. Using a …

Technical lignin (TL) is a solid waste generated in industrial activities including pulp and
paper mills and second-generation (2G) biorefineries. After isolation processes, TL is …

An essential precondition for developing countries to engage in the Fourth Industrial
Revolution (4IR) is to accelerate the creation and accumulation of firm-level technological …

Sažetak Recent studies regarding the impacts of technology spillover and international trade
have gained momentum in the emerging economies. Empirical evidences show that some …

Cities and metropolitan areas are major drivers of creativity and innovation in all possible
sectors: scientific, technological, social, artistic, etc. The critical concentration and proximity …

Although many studies have examined the impact of rising labour costs on enterprises'
innovation, there remains a lack of consensus on this issue. Combining the induced …

One of the main rationales for the existence of the patent system is to encourage knowledge
diffusion through the full disclosure of the technical knowledge embodied in a patented …

In this paper we compare the role of outward-bound international patenting in “reverse
innovation” and in conventional international modes of innovation. Through analysis of …

Purpose Innovation activities have gained much importance due to their pivotal role in
achieving economic growth–directly by increasing productivity and–indirectly by increasing …

The effects of the knowledge environment on a firm's ability to acquire, assimilate, transform,
and utilize new knowledge—its absorptive capacity (AC)—to produce innovation (INN) have …