This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s … competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential …

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

and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R … test an increasing number of innovation ideas. At the same time, a considerable number of small firms decided to resign …The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The …

-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 … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …

YICs can be differentiated from New Technology Based Firms and small young firms in terms of growth, pointing to the … find that these companies perform significantly worse than the other firms. -- Young Innovative Companies ; Growth … innovative performance and growth. Consequently, this study investigates whether Young Innovative Companies, as defined by the EU …

stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …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 …

explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies … firms clients and suppliers). Moreover, the use of ICT upstream(i.e. by a firms suppliers) negatively affects the extend of … use of ICT and a firms demand for external IT services. The paper also finds that the use of ICT within the intermediate …

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … static comparison firms with a share system show both more product and process innovations. In a dynamic setting, we find … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their …-shore networks. Smaller firms find it easier to deal with the management complexity induced by geographical dispersion of innovation … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness …