Public financial support for firm-level Research and Innovation (R&I) can generate important socio-economic returns …. This is especially true if firms use this support to develop radical innovation, defined as new-to-market goods and … services. However, radical innovation is risky, and prone to failure. Therefore, subsidising radical innovation can also …

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 …

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

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

(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 …

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 …

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

From a firm's perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …