This paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms … in China using a large-scale 2003 dataset to identify the most appropriate innovation proxy. Drawing on recent literature … on innovation and learning in developing countries, it tests two alternative proxies: (i) a technology index (TI) to …

in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. -- national …

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

The input-output interrelation between the scientific, technological and innovation system in Bulgaria is studied here …

European countries and East Germany. We exploit a unique dataset, the IWH FDI Micro database, which contains information on one … enterprises, research and development, co-operation, East Germany, Central Eastern Europe …

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, "buy" and "cooperate", on firm's product innovation performance … while both "buy" and "cooperate" have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …