to energy efficient technology (EET), I attempt to identify firm-level determinants of innovation and research in this … sizeable differences of the explaining factors of energy efficiency related innovation as compared to overall innovation. In … for EET related innovation, raising the question whether such innovation sufficiently responds to current and potential …

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …

The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … ‘soft’ ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …

&D are positively correlated to innovation performance of domestic firms, whereas market-oriented and resource …

impact of outsourcing on firms’ innovation performance as well as labour productivity. The integral investigation of the … determining factors as well as the impact of outsourcing on innovation and productivity based on the same data in a comparative …

In this paper we demonstrate the complexity that regulates the innovation-exports nexus. In particular we argue that … innovation and exports should be treated as latent variables in order to account for as many facets possible thus, accounting for … multifaceted heterogeneity. In this context, the role of innovation openness ought to be highlighted within a unified framework, as …

Human resource management (HRM) practices are generally expected to stimulate a firm’s innovation performance. However …’s innovation activities and different types of HRM practices we find that primarily new workplace organization practices seem to … enhance a firm’s innovation activities. Flexible practices of working time management and incentive payment schemes show only …

capital on one hand, and several measures of innovation performance at firm level on the other hand, in an innovation equation … framework, in which was also controlled for standard innovation determinants such as demand, competition and firm size. The … drivers of innovation performance particularly in the last fifteen to twenty years, in the same setting, it uses several …

measures of economic performance but also on innovation performance. For the empirical analysis we use a matching framework …