This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … the efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less …

importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when …

The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …

lack of empirical confirmation. In particular, the three-wave-scheme stands in contradiction to empirical innovation …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R+D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …