intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …-ups ; training ; innovation ; firm age …

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level … in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. -- national …

propensity to train apprentices. -- start-ups ; training ; innovation ; firm age …

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 …

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 …

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … 'soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …

The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge … gathering, knowledge transformation and knowledge exploitation. Here, we report a comparative panel data analysis of the IVC in … Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive …