firm characteristics that determine the innovation and economic performance of M&A. The performance measures are based on …: innovation activities. This means that with the remarkable exception of innovation activities the level of M&A performance is … determined primarily by factors of the M&A process itself. -- mergers and acquisitions ; economic performance ; innovation …

In this study we investigate the impact of early stage venture capital on innovation activities of Swiss start … venture capital on innovation performance 3 years after firm foundation but also 6 and 9 years after firm start, respectively …, for those firms that survived so long and reported continuously innovation activities (persistence of innovation). The …

measures of economic performance but also on innovation performance. For the empirical analysis we use a matching framework … performance ; innovation performance …

uncertainty significantly reduces managers' expected investment, employment and production in the short and mid run. We collect …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … an additional production factor in the framework of a production function. We found that the skill composition of the … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …