factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation … activities. Using information on over 1,500 innovative German firms from the Mannheim Innovationpanel of 2003, we find that an … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R&D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

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 …

innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations … information flows and cooperation patterns within the innovation system of Germany. In the summary at the end of this paper we …In the following paragraphs we will discuss the ?mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems?. For …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …