It is widely recognized that innovation is the major driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works … focus especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while distinguishing product innovation to … process innovation. This distinction is often regarded as a fundamental assumption but the way in which firms make the …

Innovation is widely recognised as a key driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works focus … especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while distinguishing between its various types (product … innovation, process innovation, radical innovation and incremental innovation). The analysis of the determinants is certainly …

paper is to examine to what extent outsourcing relationships can be a source of innovation in industrial services using a …. Our results support the evidence of positive effects of outsourcing service activities on the capacity of innovation. This …

This paper discusses the effect of technological innovation on consump- tion side. Apart from Quality effect …

productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … practices to levels of productivity using regression analysis. The four innovation modes have a statistically signifcant …This paper presents a novel empirical study of innovation practices of U.S. companies and their relation to …

, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …

grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …

the research cycle, a movement which may actually discourage future research innovation. This document addresses some of …

the second scenario. Such conditions imply the existence of an inverse-U shaped relationship between innovation and …

underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is …-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China. …