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. …

focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R+D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net- works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. …

This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We … develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous … innovation sizes. Government demand in high-tech industries increases the market size in these industries and, with it, the …

Germany, we analyze how policy induced demand stimulates innovation. Taking the size of the market as a proxy for demand and … patent counts as a proxy for innovation, we find support that the presence of institutions enabling diffusion of GTs are …

This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …

neutrality could seriously harm the development of innovative business models and discourage innovation and investment. …