This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …

Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a … rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …

the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and … the cross-border importance of patent protection for domestic and foreign inventors and economies is still …-1932. Therefore, we study the potential influence of patent laws, institutional quality, and primary and secondary schooling. Controls …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

The importance of green innovation management is growing in practice and academia likewise. To our knowledge, a recent … innovation” and provide an overview of the existing body ofliterature in the field of green innovations identifying the most … environmental innovation are used largely synonymously while the notion ofsustainable innovation broadens the concept and includes a …

SMEs new arenas to engage in what we may call are “global innovation” activities so as to gain, retain, and further … strengthen the competitive position. This pressure to go for global innovation is enhanced by given socio-demographic factors, e … carried out in the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg in Germany to identify barriers to innovation in selected industries and to …

inextricably connected with both business- and economics-driven dimensions of innovation. In fact, the phenomenon of a foreign …-owned R&D facility implies that a company innovation system must in some way integrate with a regional innovation system. A … enabling a comparison of these innovation environments. The second step was to examine the characteristics of the foreign …

The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. The literature …) relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. Empirical research to date, including the work of Storey and Kelly (2002 …), document a linear relationship between knowledge transfer and innovation. In order to investigate the possibility of a non …

A better understanding of Open Source Innovation in Physical Product (OSIP) might allow project managers to mitigate … risks associated with this innovation model and process, while developing the right strategies to maximise OSIP outputs. In … the software industry, firms have been highly successful using Open Source Innovation (OSI) strategies. However, OSI in …