The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a production function of innovation for European regions …

determined by the industrial development triggered by changes in domestic demand, increases in FDI, intensive innovation efforts …

This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper …

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …