Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit den Determinanten erfolgreicher F&E-Kooperationen und dem Einfluss von Innovationspolitik auf das Entstehen dieser Kooperationen beziehungsweise die Diffusion der Ergebnisse aus diesen kooperativen Innovationstätigkeiten. Die konzeptionelle Grundlage...

While firms increasingly adopt open innovation, little is known about whether firms gain or lose from this innovation approach. Motivated by this research gap in the literature, the thesis explores the antecedents and performance implications of open innovation strategies, particularly...

This thesis investigates whether Chinese firms improve their productivity through export and why this is the case; whether export and R&D investment have a complementary effect on improving firm performance; how to identify the dynamics of technological capabilities for a large group of firms and...

This volume was prepared by Simon Wiederhold during his stay at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and at the Duke University in Durham, U.S. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Jena in August 2011. The thesis...

Diese Arbeit trägt zu einem besseren Verständnis der Bedeutung von Kooperationen und Wissensaustausch für den Erfolg innovativer Unternehmen bei. Dabei gründet sie im Wesentlichen auf Josef Alois Schumpeters ‚Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung‘ aus dem Jahre 1912. Neuere Theorien,...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...