Small firms are seen as important drivers of dynamics and innovation. They need to be particularly flexible and be able …

organization. Finally, we discuss several directions for future research in this increasingly important area of innovation and …

innovation by enabling firms to invest in promising new R&D projects as soon as they are discovered, or to maintain R&D during … uncertainty, thus driving more commercially valuable innovation. This is one of the few studies providing empirical evidence of …

Valley, respectively, these IC firms can easily imitate any innovation through the interactions among intra-industry firms …. The contribution of intra-industry innovation development to firms' technological advancement is defined as the "spillover … effect". This paper compares how the innovation characteristics and industrial clustering influence the spillover effects …

Innovation is of vital importance, not only to commercial companies, but also to governments. For the Dutch, innovation … evaluation of a water innovation program carried out by the Dutch government, using the cyclic innovation model, shows that there … is a broad understanding of innovation, that innovators see innovation as a significant break from the "old" and …

establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …