Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

productive wells for firms that carefully choose whom to copy -- but also a decline in innovation among the most productive firms …-off between the potential benefits of information diffusion and transparency, and the potential costs of reduced innovation …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

This paper compares the contribution of R&D to innovation in terms of the various innovation output measures provided … by the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3) for French manufacturing firms and in terms of accounting for inter …-industry innovation differences …