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 …

Human resource management (HRM) practices are generally expected to stimulate a firm's innovation performance. However …'s innovation activities and different types of HRM practices we find that primarily new workplace organization practices seem to … enhance a firm's innovation activities. Flexible practices of working time management and incentive payment schemes show only …

'relevant' firms. Our empirical results indeed show that the measure performs better than the standard measure in an innovation … and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from … particularly Switzerland itself. Moreover, the spillover effect on innovation performance decreases with increasing number of …