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 …

privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The …

main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent … of a patent production function. It turns out that both purely privately financed R&D and publicly induced R&D show a …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both … sources display higher sales of market novelties and future patent applications at the firm level. If only one grant is …

, smaller than in other years. This temporary decrease may be caused by an altered innovation subsidy scheme in crisis years or … by a different innovation investment behavior of the subsidy recipients. We do not find support for the countercyclical … innovation subsidy scheme having caused the smaller additionality effect and conclude that it is likely to be driven by subsidy …

to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R …

, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non …