to innovation classifying firms into four broad sectors. The propensity and drivers of four types of innovation (new to … to firm and new to market innovation, there is a strong degree of heterogeneity in the drivers of innovation across … evidence of differences across sectors in the drivers of innovation. These results have important implications for policy …

and product innovation for a sample of Irish firms. The key contribution is to provide an empirical test of the relative … effects on the probability of innovation, while engaging in both national and international interaction has no effect. The … findings support hypotheses on the importance of both geographically proximate and distant interaction for innovation, though …

This paper introduces a new measure to test whether more frequent interaction has a positive effect on innovation by … increases innovation likelihood, with the probability increasing at a diminishing rate. Distant interaction is more valuable … imply that policy should focus on facilitating SME access to distant agents. …