This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing … the link between innovation and profits separately for innovators and non-innovators, and for indigenous innovators and … non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant …

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …

knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved individual heterogeneity in explaining the persistence of innovation. …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994–2002. It turns out that innovation behaviour is …