ensuing innovation race, firms interact through information spillovers resulting from the imperfect appropriability of … behavioural regularities of agents who are engaged in innovation activities. As a key element we test to what extend relative … economic performance exercises a stimulating effect on the implementation of innovation and imitation strategies. …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on theinnovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from theGerman Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair … firmsapplying knowledge management with twin firms with similar characteristics notapplying knowledge management. Our focus is on …

theensuing innovation race, firms interact through information spillovers resulting fromthe imperfect appropriability of research … of agents who are engaged in innovation activities. As a key element wetest to what extend relative economic performance … exercises a stimulating effect onthe implementation of innovation and imitation strategies. …