The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation … activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen … as the main precondition of successful innovation. However, the successful transformation of R&D investment into …

The goal of this paper is to present a formal model of firm innovation that simultaneously analyzes innovation factors … serves here as an input measure of firm innovation. R&D intensity can be defined as a ratio of firm's R&D spending to the … an elasticity-based model of firm innovation. Further, within the model framework, it is shown how horizontal R …

Purpose: Over time, technological intensity has been used as a proxy for innovation capability of firms in an …. Therefore, this study aims to explore a potential association between technological intensity and innovation capability in firms … and the components of innovation capability proposed by Zawislak et al. (2012, 2013). Design/methodology/approach: The …