Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

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

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm's innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … former evidence that persistency in innovation is driven by true state dependence. More importantly, we find that the local …

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

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …

the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation. We …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …