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 …

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups’ innovation performance. Additional …

innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms differently depending on firm characteristics and ambitions. In …, resource-constrained firms using staged project management are shown to abandon a larger share of their innovation projects and … development on when and why the staging of innovation projects affects the innovation output of firms and to the literature on …

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

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 …

Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international … stronger dispersed international R&D activities hamper or stimulate innovation. Second, we employ two well-established market …-based indicators for innovation (introduction of and sales growth rates due to new products) instead of looking at inventions (patents …

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 …

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 …

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 …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …