enterprises that took place at the beginning of 2005. We found that KTT activities improve the innovation performance of firms … innovation indicators (a1) in the framework of an innovation equation with variables of endogenized KTT activities (overall … activities, specific forms of activities) as additional determinants of innovation, and (a2) based on a matched-pairs analysis …

from 2582 firms, i.e. 45.4% of the firms in the underlying sample. -- knowledge and technology transfer ; innovation …

innovation performance of a firm. In fact, KTT strategies related to the core R&D activities of a firm showed a greater impact … related (a) to the absorptive capacity of a firm and (b) to the degree of appropriability of the returns of innovation …. -- 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 … of competition for innovation. -- Diversity ; Innovation Performance ; Evolution of Industries ; Jacobs Externalities … innovation in addition to more traditional factors like technology-push, demand-pull, and firm-size, based on panel data stemming …

, but we do not find evidence for the reverse effect. When additionally looking at innovation performance, R&D activities …