The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …, different innovation effects were empirically outlined for the German manufacturing industry for the first time. On the … innovation input side, the effects of science-related technological opportunities in combination with absorptive capacities …

The main focus of this paper is on the examination of the role and importance of innovation networks in the decision to … innovation intensity, the implications resulting from the involvement of ?start-ups? in a network of innovation are more closely … analyzed. The examinations show, on the one hand, that contact to innovation networks has a positive effect on the decision …

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of universities in the innovation process. Against the background of … theoretical considerations about the interrelation of innovation and the adaptation of external resources, the effects of … university-based (knowledge) resources - together with other exogenous variables - on the innovation input and output of firms in …