Using firm level data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2008–2010 we analyse the importance of eight skill … sets for the innovation performance of firms. We distinguish between radical and incremental innovation. Our results … suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the importance of skills for different types of innovation and that some …

Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards … sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation …/ Approach Using data for over 2,000 Irish firms collected in a special module included in the sixth Community Innovation Survey …

to innovation classifying firms into four broad sectors. The propensity and drivers of four types of innovation (new to … to firm and new to market innovation, there is a strong degree of heterogeneity in the drivers of innovation across … evidence of differences across sectors in the drivers of innovation. These results have important implications for policy …

with external networks together enhance the probability that firms engage in product and process innovation. Following … data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2006-08. In order to control for potential endogeneity of the external … functions. The results suggest that Irish-owned firms which engage in external networks with public knowledge sources while …

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide an empirical analysis of whether differing forms of innovation act … this paper is empirical in nature. Data is obtained for approximately 582 firms from the Irish Community Innovation Survey … 2004-06. Four forms of innovation activity are identified; new to firm product, new to market product, process and …

performance of eco-innovation while a knowledge augmented production function is used to assess the impact of eco-innovation on …Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The … purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation …

estimating innovation and productivity simultaneously, it extends the CDM methodology to include a range of external knowledge … knowledge sources affect the innovation decision but not innovation performance, thus pointing to the primacy of internal …Abstract This paper analyses the innovation value chain for the Irish Community Innovation Survey (CIS): 2004–2006. In …

and product innovation for a sample of Irish firms. The key contribution is to provide an empirical test of the relative … effects on the probability of innovation, while engaging in both national and international interaction has no effect. The … findings support hypotheses on the importance of both geographically proximate and distant interaction for innovation, though …

This paper introduces a new measure to test whether more frequent interaction has a positive effect on innovation by … increases innovation likelihood, with the probability increasing at a diminishing rate. Distant interaction is more valuable …