related (a) to the absorptive capacity of a firm and (b) to the degree of appropriability of the returns of innovation … innovation performance of a firm. In fact, KTT strategies related to the core R&D activities of a firm showed a greater impact …. -- R&D strategies ; knowledge and technology transfer ; innovation activities ; R&D activities …

This paper investigates empirically the impact of diversity on the innovation performance of a firm. We created a … innovation in addition to more traditional factors like technology-push, demand-pull, and firm-size, based on panel data stemming …, diversity has a significant positive impact on the innovation intensity of firms and thus supports more theoretical findings in …

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …