-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards … sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation …/ Approach Using data for over 2,000 Irish firms collected in a special module included in the sixth Community Innovation Survey …

to innovation classifying firms into four broad sectors. The propensity and drivers of four types of innovation (new to … to firm and new to market innovation, there is a strong degree of heterogeneity in the drivers of innovation across … evidence of differences across sectors in the drivers of innovation. These results have important implications for policy …

with external networks together enhance the probability that firms engage in product and process innovation. Following … data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2006-08. In order to control for potential endogeneity of the external … functions. The results suggest that Irish-owned firms which engage in external networks with public knowledge sources while …

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide an empirical analysis of whether differing forms of innovation act … this paper is empirical in nature. Data is obtained for approximately 582 firms from the Irish Community Innovation Survey … 2004-06. Four forms of innovation activity are identified; new to firm product, new to market product, process and …

Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The … purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation … stimulating eco-innovation. Design/methodology/approach - The approach utilised by this paper is empirical in nature. A modified …

aggressive development of a basic innovation by better informed venture-backed firms is used as a signaling device to enhance the … sale price of the innovation. We then show that incumbents can undertake early, preemptive, acquisitions to prevent such … signaling driven overinvestment, despite the risk of buying a non-productive innovation. Therefore, to exist in equilibrium …

and product innovation for a sample of Irish firms. The key contribution is to provide an empirical test of the relative … effects on the probability of innovation, while engaging in both national and international interaction has no effect. The … findings support hypotheses on the importance of both geographically proximate and distant interaction for innovation, though …

This paper introduces a new measure to test whether more frequent interaction has a positive effect on innovation by … increases innovation likelihood, with the probability increasing at a diminishing rate. Distant interaction is more valuable …