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 …

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 …

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data …

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of … different institutional environments. Based on firm-level data from 27 Central and Eastern European countries we identify a …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The … empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German … technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …

between the factors that have an impact on employment increases and employment decreases. The data stem from a telephone … prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease …