job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self …, the higher they score on this index. Effects are particularly strong for growth oriented outcomes like innovation and … ambition, and necessity. We show that individuals driven by opportunity motives perform better in terms of innovation and …

well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …

well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …

impact of outsourcing on firms' innovation performance as well as labour productivity. The integral investigation of the … determining factors as well as the impact of outsourcing on innovation and productivity based on the same data in a comparative …

The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … medium-educated personnel. Innovating firms do not rely to the same extent on the exploration of external knowledge. Their … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …

Human resource management (HRM) practices are generally expected to stimulate a firm’s innovation performance. However …’s innovation activities and different types of HRM practices we find that primarily new workplace organization practices seem to … enhance a firm’s innovation activities. Flexible practices of working time management and incentive payment schemes show only …

Based on a representative sample of Swiss firms we empirically investigated strategies for knowledge and technology …” transfer activities such as R&D contracts are stronger correlated with innovation performance compared to strategies related to …