There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

the form of mergers and acquisitions followed by the firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. The study found that … competition arising out of the pro-market reforms and to strengthen their market portfolio. The study reaches the conclusion that …

The mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have evolved as most used and successful strategy of corporate restructuring. In … enhance present level of understanding in the mentioned area, present the current scenario of merger and acquisition (M …-term performance of the firms after such deals with the help of ratio analysis, profit structure, liquidity structure by comparing pre-merger …

Innovation entsteht kein Produkt. Wie sich Unternehmer beim Hervorbringen von Innovationen verhalten, ist aber weitgehend … unbekannt – und damit auch, welches Verhalten sich positiv und welches sich negativ auf eine Innovation auswirkt. Ueber dieses …

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is … acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the process of creative destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort … that high-quality inventions are sold under bidding competition. Asymmetric information problems are shown to be solved by …

divesting assets. Third, acquisitions motivated by knowledge barriers in the innovation process affect the probability of … positive innovative sales positively while acquisitions motivated by other reasons than innovation barriers affect this …This aim of this paper is twofold. First it examines the determinants of acquisitions and divestitures of Dutch firms …

less innovation activity. In this study we investigate the innovation activity of 436 German manufacturing firms differing … management are detrimental to firm innovation, at the same time family control has a positive impact on innovation activities …

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …