costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups’ innovation performance. Additional … consequential choices of startups. We argue that middle management is positively related to introducing product innovations because … suggest that the effectiveness of these mechanisms depends on the riskiness of a startup’s business opportunity. Based on a …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms differently depending on firm characteristics and ambitions. In …, resource-constrained firms using staged project management are shown to abandon a larger share of their innovation projects and … development on when and why the staging of innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms and to the literature on …

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study … holds both for non-knowledge-based and, to a lesser extent, knowledge-based startups. This seems surprising since a vast …). We also document that workforces become more heterogeneous over time - startups add workers with skills different from …