We experimentally investigate competition in innovation in a patent race scenario. Pairs of subjects compete as seller … firms on a duopoly market, engaging in risky search investments. Successful innovation is rewarded through temporary …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It … recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To analyse the embedding of KM in a firm's internal system of innovation we …. Using data on KM and innovation success of 351 German firms of the manufacturing sector and knowledge-intensive services …

focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation …In this paper we investigate factors that influence a firm's decision to implement knowledge management practices. Our … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R&D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more …

debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany …-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main ques-tions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of … social capital likely to be more in-novative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … applying knowledge management with twin firms with similar characteristics not applying knowledge management. Our focus is on …

cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external knowledge. Absorptive capacity of firms develops as an outcome of … the interaction between absorptive R&D and cognitive distance from voluntary and involuntary knowledge spillovers. Thus …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (Mannheim Innovation Panel), we pair firms … applying knowledge management with twin firms with similar characteristics not applying knowledge management. Our focus is on …

respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with … universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of … knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation. We obtained a clear pattern of the differences between exploration …

-based knowledge spillovers as one such factor (Audretsch and Lehmann 2005, Cassia et al. 2009). This paper extends this approach to … the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …