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 …-owned firms which engage in backward networking for product and forward networking for process innovation while also undertaking R …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

European countries. As a whole, Europe is lagging behind in its ability to generate, organise, and sustain innovation processes … position of the US as a locus of innovation in pharmaceuticals has increased over the past decade compared to Europe. All in …

Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment … achieve innovations of high quality. Depending on the type of industry, the type of business, the type of innovation and the … strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and innovation is …

This paper presents a novel empirical study of innovation practices of U.S. companies and their relation to … productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … outputs of innovation activities into four latent unobserved innovation modes or practices for OECD countries using Community …

The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing … innovation activity of a firm, including structural characteristics (size, industry, etc.), competitive environment (intensity of … competition and type of main competitors), changes in financial position of a firm, it's pre-crisis performance and innovation …

incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal … vertically organized sectors that define innovation activeness in the economy (for example, mechanical engineering), the …

Existing research on the relationship between market concentration and innovation has produced conflicting findings. In … addition, the emerging literature on the relationship between corporate governance and innovation tends to focus only on … partial effects of corporate governance on innovation. We aim to contribute to the debate by investigating both partial and …