The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. -- knowledge management ; innovation ; matching estimator …

explaining the why of a certain innovation instead of another. We empirically test this theory in the telecommunication switches … industry. We consider innovation as a new alignment of needs and opportunities, where markets and technology are not the …