We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an internal learning by searching strategy, while noncumulative firms adopt … an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …

-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper … the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and … additionally for SMEs. To this end firms? innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …

The paper deals with the policies for an idealized transition of a National System of Innovation (NSI) from a system … Society" and "Learning Economy". The analysis of the transition process analyse the NSI from the viewpoint of the needs of the … capabilities of the new technological input. The goal is to generate a cumulative learning processes about restructuring which …

on demand and innovation, theory still lacks a comprehensive analytical formulation. This paper proposes a model where …