availability of highly skilled labor and the proximity to suppliers matters for firms’ innovation performance. Interestingly …This study investigates how local milieus foster innovation success of firms. We complement the common practice of … linking firm performance indicators to regional characteristics with survey evidence on the perceived importance of locational …

affects negatively the value of the introduced product and processes innovation. Second, the theoretical model suggests that …

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee headcounts is much stronger in companies that are already experiencing …

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 …

influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management ; innovation performance … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively …

Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been … manufacturing firms we show inter-departmental innovation collaboration to increase process innovation performance, but also to … produce costs in terms of project delay and project termination. These costs, however, do not affect innovation performance at …

The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory …-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German … firms. Performance is measured in terms of labour productivity and realised process and product innovations. The analysis … productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. -- Labour productivity …

heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and … performance. In terms of input, getting funding from both sources yields the highest impact. If funding from only one source is … received, EU grants have higher effects. In terms of output, holding innovation expenditures constant, funding from both …