innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work … suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using … CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model …