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 …

three factors that may affect the adoption decision: product complexity, architectural innovation and competency scale. The …

findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firms' innovation … fruitful for innovation. There are vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between the … small and large firms, and between the firms that are functioning in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in the …

This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms' innovation …, we find evidence that the public R&D finance has substantially influenced the innovation output of the firms that have … performance in terms of innovation. Those large firms that have more intensively collaborated with the SMS firm partners in their …

in other companies. The relationship between the firm's total innovation and employment growth is not statistically …

when there is a certain level of prior patenting experience of the individual innovation partners. Interestingly, the prior … patenting experience of the pairs of firms filing the joint patent does not seem to matter. It thus seems that learning from the …

This paper empirically explores how technology policy affects innovation behaviour in the telecommunications sector … innovation behaviour of telecommunications operators?, and (iii) What is the direction of Granger-causality between innovation … dynamic, non-linear nature of the innovation process and interdependency between equations for a patent count variable, R …