The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: Knowledge … Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland …

Recent studies in the tradition of Schmookler have re-emphasised the potential role of demand in stimulating innovation …. Here, we reconsider the role of 'home' and 'export' market demand in stimulating manufacturing innovation using comparable … innovation production functions using panel data estimators over the sample period 1994 to 2005. For a range of innovation …

, but we do not find evidence for the reverse effect. When additionally looking at innovation performance, R&D activities …

question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … ‘soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …

the innovation behaviour of Swiss firms using a mail survey addressed to almost 6600 panel firms of the industrial …(s) calling may be introducing another bias. In order to investigate this question, in the case of the ETH Zurich's innovation …

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, ‘buy' and ‘cooperate', on firm's product innovation performance … while both ‘buy' and ‘cooperate' have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …