learning organisational forms in some parts of the economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best …

This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing … the link between innovation and profits separately for innovators and non-innovators, and for indigenous innovators and … non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant …

An earlier version of this paper was prepared for the joint OECD/Eurostat workshop on innovation surveys, OECD, Paris …, June 30th 1999. The paper addresses some issues about the nature of innovation surveys (particularly the new Community … Innovation Surveys) and how they might be improved to take on board several crucial developments in contemporary advanced …

knowledge institutes in Finland and the Netherlands. Three questions – relevant for innovation policies - constitute the central … knowledge institutions than innovating domestic firms? Second, do innovating firms that are open to their external knowledge … knowledge institutions in Finland and the Netherlands attractive R&D partners to innovative firms? Based on data from Community …

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …

organisational innovation to a larger extent than the less flexible firms and consequently are more inclined to employ new work …