• Pursuing a basic principle of measurement performance: The case of a firm level innovation scoreboard
Giuliana Battisti (Aston Business School, UK), Amid Mourani and Paul Stoneman (Warwick Business School, UK)

• Pitfalls in estimating the returns to corporate R&D using accounting data
Bronwyn H. Hall (UC Berkeley, US / University of Maastricht, the Netherlands), Dominique Foray (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Jacques Mairesse (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands)

• Sectoral and firm-level differences in innovation performance: Evidence from Finnish manufacturing firms
Hanna Kuittinen (Lappeenranta University of Technology / School of Business, Finland)

• Stock price volatility and patent citation dynamics: The case of the pharmaceutical industry
Mariana Mazzucato (Open University, UK) and Massimiliano Tancioni (University of Rome, Italy)

• R&D activities as a growth factor of foreign owned SMEs in Croatia
Zoran Aralica (The Institute of Economics, Croatia), Domagoj Račić (The Isle of Knowledge, Croatia) and Denis Redžepagić (The Institute of Economics, Croatia)

• The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs
Alessandra Catozzella (University of Pavia, Italy) and Marco Vivarelli (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

• R&D and embodied technological change: The role of firm size and sector belonging
Andrea Conte (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany) and Marco Vivarelli (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

• Which innovation? The search for new products and processes in European manufacturing and services
Francesco Crespi (University of “Roma Tre”, Italy) and Mario Pianta (University of Urbino, Italy)

• The dynamics of research joint ventures: A panel data approach
Tomaso Duso (Humboldt University / WZB – Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany), Enrico Pennings (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Jo Seldeslachts (WZB – Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany)

• Productivity dynamics, R&D, and competitive pressure
Florin Maican (Gothenburg University, Sweden)

• The effects of innovation experience on project selection: Better the devil you know
Tobias Schmidt, Franz Schwiebacher and Wolfgang Sofka (ZEW – Centre for European Economic Research, Germany)

• What determines R&D investment in French firms: A two-part hierarchical model with correlated random effects
Myriam Abdelmoula and Jean Michel Etienne (ERMES-CNRS, Université Paris II Panthéon Assas, France)

• Credit constraints and the cyclicality of R&D investment: Evidence from France
Philippe Aghion (Harvard University, US / Paris School of Economics, France), Philippe Askenazy (Paris School of Economics, France / Banque de France), Nicolas Berman (University Paris 1, France / Banque de France), Gilbert Cette (Banque de France / Aix-Marseille II University, France) and Laurent Eymard (Banque de France)

• Who gets the money? The dynamics of direct R&D subsidies in Germany
Birgit Aschhoff (ZEW – Centre for European Economic Research, Germany)

• The impact of R&D tax incentives on R&D costs and income tax burden
Christina Elschner, Christof Ernst and Georg Licht (ZEW – Centre for European Economic Research, Germany)

• Globalization, trade liberalization and R&D expenditures in candidate countries: Evidence from manufacturing sector in Turkey
Erkan Erdil and Teoman Pamukçu (Science and Technology Policies Research Centre, Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

• The impact of market size and users’ sophistication on innovation: the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle
Marco Guerzoni (Jena Graduate School / Schiller Universität, Germany)

• Measuring the effectiveness of R&D tax credits in the Netherlands
Boris Lokshin (University of Maastricht / UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands), Pierre Mohnen (University of Maastricht / UNU-MERIT / CIRANO, the Netherlands)

• Innovation, international R&D spillovers and the sectoral heterogeneity of knowledge flows
Franco Malerba, Maria Luisa Mancusi (CESPRI, Bocconi University, Italy) and Fabio Montobbio (Insubria University / CESPRI, Bocconi University, Italy)

• The innovative activities of graduates in European companies
Jean-Jacques Paul (IREDU / Université de Bourgogne / CNRS, France)

• An analysis of R&D spillover, productivity, and growth effects in the EU
Ali Bayar, Frederic Dramais, Amela Hubic, Jeoffrey Malek-Mansour, Cristina Mohora, Masudi Opese (EcoMod & Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Hector Pollitt (Cambridge Econometrics, UK)

• Regional clusters of economic activity in Europe: Are social and geographical proximity the key determinants?
Laura de Dominicis (Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Raymond J.G.M. Florax (Purdue University, US / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Henri L.F. de Groot (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

• R&D and the multifactor productivity growth: The role of externalities in a small European open economy
Bernadette Biatour and Chantal Kegels (Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium)

• Exposure to low-wage competition, activity changes and quality upgrading: An empirical assessment
Claire Lelarge (SESSI-CREST) and Benjamin Nefussi (INSEE-CEPII)

• Corporate R&D in the ICT sector
Sven Lindmark, Geomina Turlea and Martin Ulbrich (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

• EU-US differences in the size of R&D intensive firms: Do they explain the overall R&D intensity gap?
Raquel Ortega-Argilés and Andries Brandsma (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

• Towards a Euro-Mediterranean innovation space: Ideas for research and policy making
Paolo Pasimeni (Directorate-General for Regional Policy, European Commission,), Anne-Sophie Boisard, Rigas Arvanitis (IRD – Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France) and Rafael Rodríguez-Clemente (CSIC – Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain)

• A theoretical model of competition and its impact on R&D, growth & welfare
Antonia Jennifer Swann (York University, Canada)

• International R&D cooperation within the EU framework programme: The case of Spanish firms
Ascensión Barajas and Elena Huergo (CDTI / GRIPICO-Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

• The impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on technology sourcing strategies
Elena Cefis (Bergamo University, Italy / Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Hans Schenk (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

• R&D without patents? Foreign R&D activities of European enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia: A patent analysis
Bernhard Dachs and Matthias Weber (ARC – Austrian Research Centres, Austria)

• Why is strategic R&D (still) homebound in a globalized industry? The case of leading firms in wireless telecom
Alberto Di Minin (MAIN Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy) and Christopher Palmberg (ETLA – Research Insitute of the Finnish Economy, Finland)

• Global integration and local capability as determinants of multinational subsidiaries’ R&D embeddedness: Evidence from emerging economies in Central East Europe
Bjoern Jindra (Halle Institute of Economic Research, Germany / SPRU, University of Sussex, UK)

• Stimulating international cooperation in high technology sectors: A framework based on cooperative distance
Monique Nagle, Tessa van der Valk, Floortje Alkemade and Marko Hekkert (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

• Barriers to innovation in SMEs: Can the internationalization of R&D mitigate their effects
Rajnish Tiwari and Stephan Buse (Institute of Technology and Innovation Management, Hamburg University of Technology [TUHH], Germany)

• Uncertainty, networks and real options
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou (Department of Finance, George Washington University, US), Sumit Joshi (Department of Economics, George Washington University, US) and Nicholas Vonortas (Department of Economics, Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University, US)

• Exploring the link between local and global knowledge spillovers
Salvador Barrios (Joint Research Centre, European Commission), Luisito Bertinelli (CREA, Université du Luxembourg), Andreas Heinen (Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain) and Eric Strobl (Ecole Polytechnique Paris, France)

• Does excellence in academic research attract foreign R&D?
René Belderbos (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium / Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands), Bart Leten (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and Shinya Suzuki (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

• The impact of ICT on the growth of the service industries
Koson Sapprasert (TIK – Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway)

• Innovation roadmap: Exploring alternative futures of industrial renewal
Totti Könnölä (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)