The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …

innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supplyindustry are investigated. …

In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

The literature on new goods and social welfare generally assumes thatmanufacturers develop innovations. But innovation … impact of users as a source of innovation on product diversity,innovation, and welfare. We examine the impact of user … innovation oninefficiencies that bias the provision of new goods, and find that most areeither alleviated or non-existent for …

“Production” and “transfer” of knowledge, and the role of institutions, are two major conceptual tenets of Innovation …

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differencesin productivity across and …, marketing and organizational innovations should vary withfirm size and competition. We then use a new large representative … survey from Sri Lanka totest this model and to examine whether and how owner characteristics matter for innovation.The survey …