privately financed R&D and subsidyinduced R&D investment to evaluate their respective effects on innovation performance. The … collaborate internationally as well as for SMEs. …

&D, using external innovation sources or by entering into cooperation agreements. SMEs without in-house R&D can yield a similar …This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small … and medium-sized firms (SMEs). While there is little doubt about the significance of technology competence for generating …

This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle … large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … abroad range of manufacturing and service sectors and of which 86% are SMEs, we indeed find that increasing the share of … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher …

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 examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …