importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm …

product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

relations between innovating firms, suppliers and users, using data from Germany. The analysis is based on a survey conducted by … the "Center for European Economic Research" (Mannheim, Germany) among 3122 firms representing 378 different lines of …

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

This paper deals with the innovation behavior and the R&D activities at the firm level in East Germany. The theoretical … and empirical analyses lead to the conclusion that the relatively low level of the R&D intensity in East Germany is a … often in and devote more ressources to R&D than firms in West Germany do. In total, there is no empirical evidence for an …