characteristic for their competitive environment. This is particularly the case for knowledge-intensive service providers, product …

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two …

innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and … for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find fairly few …

facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … alternative cluster measures which capture industry, technology and knowledge dimensions of clusters. Regardless of the measure …