The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. -- knowledge management ; innovation ; matching estimator …

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 …

The last decades saw a pronounced shift in innovation policy in Germany and many other countries towards increased …. -- Cluster ; Innovation Policy ; Evaluation ; Social Network Analysis …

the most controversial themes in the research of innovation systems, regional networks and new economic geography. While … contexts when knowledge is novel and the innovation endeavor is more radical while this effect is less pronounced for projects …

This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

The literature on "Innovation Systems" is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition … effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

literature. We discuss if lock-ins are really inescapable, especially when innovation is concerned. Also, we address the question …

analysis with evidence on innovation slowdown trends, looking at aggregate and compositional trends. We explore the innovation … occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …