important supplementary mechanism to protect innovations in knowledgeintensive services. …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … branches. Moreover, allowing for simultaneity we find that export activities do not enforce innovation activities. …

market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts … R&D than non-cooperating firms if spillovers are sufficiently large. Further, market demand and R&D productivity have a … collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation …

Germany, this is the first paper empirically analyzing whether both types of enterprise software foster innovation in the …This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i … between sector specific enterprise software and innovation activity while customized enterprise software is possibly related …

this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and …This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … of innovation outputs in all three countries. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to …

Extending a recently developed multiproduct model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firmlevel employment effects of innovations using specific …

sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects … innovative activities. The more grants a firm has received in the past, the more it invests in current innovation projects …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …