costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in the firms' total R&D project portfolio. For a sample of 2,891 firms located in Germany, active in … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher …

-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …

innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …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 …

Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total … innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation … expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this paper we analyse the evolution of firms' innovation and R&D activities …

relations between innovating firms, suppliers and users, using data from Germany. The analysis is based on a survey conducted by … the "Center for European Economic Research" (Mannheim, Germany) among 3122 firms representing 378 different lines of …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …

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 …

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 …