innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

characteristics of the innovation systems at national and regional levels. The paper studies two phenomena. First, what novelties are … brought into the host region (country) when FDI inflows occur? Second, what are the consequences for the innovation intensity … are based on CIS data (Community Innovation Survey III). The paper contributes to earlier studies in two important ways …

between university collaboration and the average service firm’s innovation output. Second, in the pursuit of credible … innovative in the literature of innovation studies. In analysis of the interviews, we find very weak support for the first idea …. Innovation efficiency gains in the form of reduced cost and risk for innovation projects, which is a third idea suggested by the …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential … and the innovation performance. We examine the telecommunications equipment industry over the period 1988-2002 using a … newly constructed data set with firm-level data describing M&A and innovation activity as well as financial characteristics …

universities, have greater innovation capabilities than comparable knowledge-intensive firms created in other ways. Using a sample … show that research spin-offs’ superior innovation performance can be explained by their high level of research cooperation … innovation productivity. …

linkages in geographical proximity are more likely to generate impulses to innovation and create significant learning effects …

innovation, in terms of invented or improved products or processes, are found to be the main drivers for interaction. As regards … the nature of the innovation process leading to innovation, most respondents indicate that “indirect” relationships … between collaboration outcomes and successful innovation dominate over “direct” appropriation of results. Contrasting open …