used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …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 …

Competitors can be valuable sources and partners for innovation activities. Against the background of international …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …

explorative study has been carried out in China with interviews of German firms with innovation activities in China and with a … infringements from no innovation host countries. R&D activities in China and North America also increase the risk of an infringement … analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes …

, logistics, the internet) and ideology (most notably economic and political trends in China and India) are creating exciting … for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead …

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 …