innovation are quickly matched to innovators. The mobility of innovators is also important for positive knowledge spillovers to …Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms …

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

diffusion of knowledge between firms. Non-innovation subsidies, in contrast, appear to support established industry structures …The bulk of innovation subsidies in Finland are allocated to firms in industries where the employment share of … among young firms. At the firm level, an increase in innovation subsidies is typically associated with an inflow of …

knowledge plays a crucial role in innovation activities in NMS' firms. The ability to explore cooperation with business partners … development of these countries. This paper aims to show the differences in innovation patterns among manufacturing firms operating … into account innovation inputs, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with business …

knowledge plays an important role in innovation activities in NMS firms. The ability to explore cooperation with business … partners and the benefits of using external knowledge are determined by in-house innovation activities, notably R&D intensity. …This paper investigates the differences in innovation behaviour, i.e. differences in innovation sources and innovation …

This paper investigates the barriers to innovation perceived by Polish manufacturing firms. It refers to the … heterogeneity of innovation active firms. We introduce a taxonomy of innovative firms based on the frequency with which they … introduce commercialised innovations using data from both CIS4 (for 2002-2004) and CIS5 (2004-2006). Two groups of innovation …

innovate and the frequency with which they use knowledge resources is linked to the obstacles to innovation they face and their …This paper uses obstacles to innovation to investigate the heterogeneity of Polish innovating firms. Based on the … distinguishes between two groups of innovating firms: those which introduced innovation in both periods covered by both CIS (called …