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 …

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

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 …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreign-owned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

The German biotechnology industry missed the accession of this key technology in the 1980s. Policy makers make … particular not discriminating different kinds of "risk" in the field of biotechnology. The study combines survey data of German …

While most economists believe that public scientific research fuels industry innovation and economic growth, systematic … size as a significant driver of drug innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, but they did not find any evidence … supporting science-driven innovation from publicly funded research. This paper uses new data on biomedical research investments …

and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software … has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information- and Communication Technology (ICT … social software applications triggers innovation. Thereby, it refers to a knowledge production function in which social …