This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s … competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential …

large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R … abroad. By linking international innovation activities to firm growth in the home market we try to identify likely …This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a …

on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … activities abroad. By linking international innovation activities to firm growth in the home market we try to identify likely …This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based …

YICs can be differentiated from New Technology Based Firms and small young firms in terms of growth, pointing to the … innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU …, grow more than other firms, both in terms of employment and in terms of sales. Using a database of Flemish firms over the …

R&D funding and firm?s probability of being funded. …

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to … UK. Results show that displacement effects induced by productivity growth in the production of old products are large …

explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their …-shore networks. Smaller firms find it easier to deal with the management complexity induced by geographical dispersion of innovation … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness …

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of … the share of new product-related sales. These effects are particularly pronounced for small firms operating outside the …

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … static comparison firms with a share system show both more product and process innovations. In a dynamic setting, we find … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …