barriers at the German home base such as lack of labour and high innovation costs foster the set up of later-stage innovation …This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of …

the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms … with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do EREI firms follow distinct innovation strategies? Do EREIs spur … or limit innovation success? And what are the particular features of EREI firms compared to conventional innovators …

The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …

, however, constitutes a lasting obstacle to integration. The aim of this paper is to assess these costs of supervisory …