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 … partners, innovation outputs and international competitiveness. The sample consisted of 358 firms operating in both low and …

This study investigates the impact of innovation support programmes on SME innovation in traditional manufacturing … industries in seven EU regions. Recent literature identifying sources of potential government failure in innovation policy … suggests that the effects of public support measures to increase private innovation may be disappointing. Our results are …

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterised as a vital part of the innovation process. Previous … and that these moderate the relationship between innovation inputs and outputs. Based on a sample of 4,500 firms from 13 …

resources to cope with issues that arise in the various stages of the innovation process. These are often lacking in …-house resources and expertise, which makes it extremelydifficult for them to rely solely on in-house innovation activities. Opening … their boundaries and collaborating are, therefore, essential for innovation success. Open innovation (OI) – strategic …

Innovation is critical to technological progress and has many theories to explain its processes. Organised competition … rates and radicalness. This research introduces and develops the new staged competition innovation theory which builds on … innovation activity. The new theory comprises three principles that demonstrate how a well-designed staged competition provides …

the firms were conducted mostly in high-tech sectors, making the knowledge on the impact of UIC on innovation in low … innovation performance. By using the csQCA technique applied to secondary data from the BR Survey, which is the largest UIC …-oriented UIC does not contribute to innovation, unless it is combined with both research-oriented and development-oriented UICs …

innovation within the managing of the enterprise. In such research area the purpose of the study was to identify and evaluate the …