costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper … the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and … additionally for SMEs. To this end firms’ innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …