We examine sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a … model but different data sources, different classifications of firms performance, different classifications of innovation …

Services dominate economic activity, but remain under-researched by analysts of innovation and technological change …. The early 'one size fits all' theories of innovation in services have in recent years given way to an appreciation that … services are diverse, not least in their innovation activities. This paper draws on recent empirical evidence from large …

The identification of innovation in service firms is problematic since there is no consensus of opinion on its … conceptualization. Recent papers suggest both distinctive features of innovation in services and distinctive types of service innovation … conceptualizing service innovation as a specific case of service development with a reference to Schumpeter, but not as strict as …

industries collected by the Swiss Innovation Survey 1999. We obtained a pattern of explanation of the innovative activity which … looked quite plausible across the different types of innovation measures used (input-oriented and output-oriented innovation …

Using data from a survey of 769 firms, this paper provides empirical evidence of the nature of innovation and its … are clear differences in the innovation profiles of the three sectors, which suggest that KIBS cannot be analysed as an …

Although the attention of innovation studies has traditionally been focused on manufacturing, the differential features … of innovation activities carried out by services are gaining more and more relevance in innovation research. The aim of … this paper is to thoroughly analyse the data from the Spanish Innovation Survey 2000, the first large-scale innovation …