the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance … led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as …

to a large extent, to its sustained efforts towards technological learning and capacity building. In this paper we … successfully nurtured its high-end human capital for technological learning and is poised for a smooth transition to a knowledge …

We document the evolution of product innovation and features in the mobile telephone handset market. We distinguish … between two types of product innovation: vertical and horizontal innovation. Using data from 1990 - 2003, we find that some …

This exploratory empirical study compares the determinants of innovation in manufacturing and services through … different innovation objectives or cooperating with different types of partners appears to have detrimental effects on service … innovation. We interpret the latter results through reference to service firms' R&D and alliance management capabilities …

specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the globalization of innovation. Based on recent … reference model for chances and challenges of global innovation activities. …

reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …