characteristic for their competitive environment. This is particularly the case for knowledge-intensive service providers, product …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German … technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by conducting an Exploratory Space-Time Data Analysis (ESTDA). Beside … variables. Overall, we find strong clustering tendencies for the demographic variables and innovation that constitute a great … among regions that may further reinforce the observed innovation divide in the future. …

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two …