the innovation process. Markets with high competition also force enterprises to produce imitative innovations but give …

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

developments at the firm level, the topic of design innovation has not been linked to the open innovation concept yet. In this …

external impact on innovation for a panel of 113 European and North American regions over 22 years. …

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

innovations. So far, the lead market concept in innovation economics has only been applied to innovations in general. We extend …-efficient passenger cars and wind energy. In both cases, one country adopted the innovation first. Later, other countries followed the … same innovation design favoured by the lead market. The lead market became a large exporter in the wind generation and car …