The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

and development (R&D) - their innovation goals in the medium term. However, the shortage of skilled workers turns out to … be a hindering factor in the innovation process . By contrast, most ICT companies have not been sufficiently suc …-cessful at winning other firms to build R&D co-operations to overcome hurdles to innovation. …

Disruption und offene Innovation setzen, sind Mittelständler häufig risikoavers und fokussieren sich eher auf geschlossene … closed innovation strategies and incremental changes to the status quo. Their financial and human resources are limited … partnerships that secure growth and innovation. …

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to innovation in … Germany. The paper reviews the empirical literature on SMEs' innovation activities and conceptualises indicators to identify … the key dimensions of innovation processes and outputs. The analysis of statistical data and surveys from various sources …

-technologischen Neuerungen auf Ba-sis der Community Innovation Surveys analysiert. Dabei wurde deutlich, dass nicht-technologische Innovationen …Although the German Mittelstand is usually considered as inventive and flexible, a growing innovation gap seems to open … up. Based on the CIS-datapool, this study analyses the innovation participation of Mittelstand companies/SMEs with a …