This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … (R&D, design, production and sales of new products, and implementation of new processes) and explore the role of internal …

Process innovation is an important part of firms’ innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to … positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This … paper reports empirical evidence on measures of process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

workers from other firms. Based on data from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the role of different types … of intended and unintended knowledge spillovers for innovation output at the firm level. Among intended knowledge … spillovers, using knowledge from patents shows the strongest link to innovation output, particularly in case of product …