We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments … the difficulties in using spillovers for drastic innovations. Furthermore, our estimates provide evidence that a firm?s …

This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU … countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product … manager-led firms are more active innovators : the share of sales based on new products is larger if firms' managers do not …

This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU … countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product … manager-led firms are more active innovators : the share of sales based on new products is larger if firms' managers do not …

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments … the difficulties in using spillovers for drastic innovations. Furthermore, our estimates provide evidence that a firm’s …

Belgian firms. It turns out that only the 'R' part of R&D expenditure has a significant effect on patents and that development …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity … presents empirical results on R&D intensity with respect to sales and to investment into capital. We find that firms with … limited liability undertake more R&D than other firms. The legal form has no impact on capital investment. …

R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning this question. A sample of German firms with 3,978 observations is … used and it turns out that the owner-led firms invest less into R&D than the managerial firms. With respect to the … managerled firms, expenditures on R&D depend on the control exerted. If capital shares are widely dispersed and managers are thus …

This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU … countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product … manager-led firms are more active innovators : the share of sales based on new products is larger if firms' managers do not …

predictions with a Tobit model based on a unique dataset and survey for the German manufacturing sector (the Mannheim Innovation …