This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R …, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

position. Overall strong increases in the size of patent stocks are related to a decreasingly positive or even vanishing …

. We distinguish expenditures on innovation (R&D) and imitation (international technology spillovers) and consider the role … energy-specific relative to labor-specific expenditures on innovation and imitation reduces mitigation costs, though. …

-oriented provincial governments and that China's innovation policy is more supportive of firms located in developed provinces. Considering …