to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal …

Established firms often face significant obstacles to innovation. As a solution, it has been suggested to form … monitored by their corporate sponsors, resulting in less favorable conditions for radical innovation …

Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that:(1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

This paper is concerned with exploring the implications of replicability issues over the medical innovation process … institution governing the testing efforts. Research and innovation policy implications are discussed …

how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge … techniques on product and process innovation. More specifically, if a firm wants to reduce costs, it is more valuable to invest … important for a firm to carefully select the techniques of knowledge management depending on the goals in its innovation …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation … innovation activities, which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation …

for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead … regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again …