This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …

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 …

comprising three cross sections (1999, 2002, and 2005) of the Swiss innovation survey, four different types of R&D strategies …

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 main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …

such innovations affect performance. To analyse the relationship between green innovation and performance, new industry …

This paper investigates the relationship between technology specialization and innovation performance of firms … innovative products. Following the “technology trajectory (path)” increases the probability of an above average innovation … detect a significant positive relationship between the combined effect (transfer and specialization) and the innovation …