In this study we investigate the determinants of R&D activities of Swiss firms abroad and discuss the resulting explanation pattern in the light of the debate taking place at the time in economics with respect to the possibility of a positive (complementarity hypothesis) or a negative impact...

The competitiveness of the Swiss economy depends in a crucial way on a high level of the firms' innovative activities. In this perspective we compare, first, the innovation performance of the manufacturing sector with other highly developed countries using a whole set of innovation indicators....

Most empirical studies on innovative activity are based on a single (or a very small number of) indicator(s), a procedure not appropriate to the complexity of the innovation process. In this study, using factor analysis we develop at the firm level a composite innovation measure which contains...