innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperation, firm size and the importance of protection methods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on the …

Portugal over the period 1998 to 2004. During this period the structural primary balance ratio clearly worsened in all … the structural primary expenditure ratio, while the opposite was true for Portugal. The analysis highlights the various …

Portugal. It collects evidence from available studies on each of those countries and also provides new evidence. These studies …

?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … self-selected on the basis of their being able to overcome the special difficulties of financing innovation. …

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 … applying knowledge management with twin firms with similar characteristics not applying knowledge management. Our focus is on …

main channels: innovation and absorptive capacity. The quantitative results, based on a panel of 16 OECD countries from …&D. An increased VC intensity also makes it easier to absorb the knowledge generated by universities and firms. …