&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 …

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 …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

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 …

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …

preferences. In order to generate global innovation, an international firm should look for the global common denominator of … export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service … industries. These firms were asked about the sources of their innovation and their exporting activities. We find evidence that …

Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …

known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …