Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company … leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical …

environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … bands show that the strength of knowledge spillovers that contribute to innovation persistence via true state dependence …Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm's innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known …

This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and … of innovation outputs in all three countries. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to …

Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international … knowledge. This paper evaluates this strategy by investigating whether firms with international R&D are more innovative than … stronger dispersed international R&D activities hamper or stimulate innovation. Second, we employ two well-established market …