in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … branches. Moreover, allowing for simultaneity we find that export activities do not enforce innovation activities. …

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

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

employment growth and postentry innovation activities of the new firm. We focus on start-ups for which a new idea (a new product … terms of post-entry innovation activities. However, we cannot show that corporate spinoffs benefit from the transferred idea … subsequent post-entry innovation activities of corporate spinoffs. …

export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service … determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this mean that intense local user-producer interaction always leads to … preferences. In order to generate global innovation, an international firm should look for the global common denominator of …

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 …

Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each … unfortunate as both processes - the process of innovation and the process of mergers and acquisitions - are intimately connected …. The impact of mergers on innovation can only be rigorously assessed, if the converse direction of influence - mergers …

This paper investigates the drivers and the 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 … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation …