The aim of this paper is, firstly, to contribute to the understanding of innovation patterns in services. To this end …, firms which are similar in terms of a large set of innovation indicators were grouped into clusters. For the Swiss case, it … was possible to identify five clusters which exhibit clearly different configurations of a large number of innovation …

the production of knowledge (appropriability, technological opportunities), innovation and production costs as well as … innovative activities in the service sector. Several innovation variables referring to the input as well as the output side of … the innovation process served as endogenous variables of the innovation model. For the empirical work we used firm data …