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

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterised as a vital part of the innovation process. Previous … and that these moderate the relationship between innovation inputs and outputs. Based on a sample of 4,500 firms from 13 …

these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …

This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German … technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which …

, but only for firms that engage in in-licensing and only for product innovation. The relationship between fragmentation and …

Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each … unfortunate as both processes - the process of innovation and the process of mergers and acquisitions - are intimately connected …. The impact of mergers on innovation can only be rigorously assessed, if the converse direction of influence - mergers …

higher innovative performance for firms that do not in-license. Furthermore, the effects of fragmentation on innovation also …