the production of knowledge (appropriability, technological opportunities), innovation and production costs as well as … innovative activities in the service sector. Several innovation variables referring to the input as well as the output side of … the innovation process served as endogenous variables of the innovation model. For the empirical work we used firm data …

question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …

The main objective of this empirical paper is to identify characteristics of imitation and innovation and shed light on … different types of innovating firms show that an innovation performance hierarchy exists ranking from occasional innovators …

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations … 'soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …

In this paper we demonstrate the complexity that regulates the innovation-exports nexus. In particular we argue that … innovation and exports should be treated as latent variables in order to account for as many facets possible thus, accounting for … multifaceted heterogeneity. In this context, the role of innovation openness ought to be highlighted within a unified framework, as …