with external networks together enhance the probability that firms engage in product and process innovation. Following … data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2006-08. In order to control for potential endogeneity of the external … functions. The results suggest that Irish-owned firms which engage in external networks with public knowledge sources while …

Innovation is widely recognised as a key driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works focus … especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while distinguishing between its various types (product … innovation, process innovation, radical innovation and incremental innovation). The analysis of the determinants is certainly …

and product innovation for a sample of Irish firms. The key contribution is to provide an empirical test of the relative … effects on the probability of innovation, while engaging in both national and international interaction has no effect. The … findings support hypotheses on the importance of both geographically proximate and distant interaction for innovation, though …

This paper introduces a new measure to test whether more frequent interaction has a positive effect on innovation by … increases innovation likelihood, with the probability increasing at a diminishing rate. Distant interaction is more valuable …

paper is to examine to what extent outsourcing relationships can be a source of innovation in industrial services using a …. Our results support the evidence of positive effects of outsourcing service activities on the capacity of innovation. This …