We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

-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 generates similar innovation success compared to …

Innovation is the result of intentional decision-making that takes place in out-of-equilibrium conditions …-of-equilibrium conditions. The farther away the firm from equilibrium, the stronger the likelihood for innovation to take place. The hypothesis …

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 …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …

This paper contributes the analysis of the persistence of innovation activities, as measured by different innovation …&D investments in innovation persistence and analyses differentiated patterns of persistence across product and process innovation … of innovation persistence. The highest level of persistence is found for R&D-based innovation activities, witnessing the …

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms’ ability to adapt its … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for the …

The paper elaborates the notion of innovation as an emerging property of complex system dynamics and presents an agent …, reacting to out-of-equilibrium conditions, can actually take advantage of external knowledge available within the innovation …