The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB …

This paper examines the persistence of innovation behaviour at the firm level (manufacturing and services sectors). We … attempt to answer the question : does being successful in past innovation activities increase the probability of being … successful in current innovation activities ? We contribute to the literature by explicitly distinguishing between single and …

In this paper, we will review the literature on technological innovation persistence and provide a general theoretical … account organizational innovation practices as possible determinants of innovation persistence. We will therefore include them …, as previous studies have shown the interaction effects between the two types of innovation, and produce empirical results …