This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key … startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that … that the creation and survival of innovative start-ups should become one qualifying point of the economic policy agenda. …

these start-ups die. The probable life duration in agglomeration areas is in total greater than in rural areas. The analysis … sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly … differ between the analysed high-tech industries. Cooperation between start-up firms can be interpreted as a kind of mutual …

This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for … innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …