these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic … of discussion among academics and practitioners. Most research in this field focuses on knowledge sharing activities of …

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterised as a vital part of the innovation process. Previous … and that these moderate the relationship between innovation inputs and outputs. Based on a sample of 4,500 firms from 13 … European countries we find that search patterns in low-technology industries focus on market knowledge while they are built …

innovation: regulations, R&D subsidies and knowledge infrastructure (i.e. basic research at universities). We synthesize the … procurement and knowledge spillovers from universities propel innovation success equally. In a second step, we explore whether …Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national …

Druckkohlenstaubfeuerung als radikale Innovation und überkritische Kohlekraftwerke als inkrementelle Innovation miteinander verglichen. Anhand …

investigate firms’ capabilities to assimilate, identify and prioritize valuable knowledge across national, cultural and social … leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results …Searching for external knowledge has frequently been characterized as crucial for firm success. However, little is … known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms …

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the … breadth and depth of search strategies for external knowledge help young firms to enter international markets. Once they have …