The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms …, different innovation effects were empirically outlined for the German manufacturing industry for the first time. On the … innovation input side, the effects of science-related technological opportunities in combination with absorptive capacities …

The main focus of this paper is on the examination of the role and importance of innovation networks in the decision to … innovation intensity, the implications resulting from the involvement of ?start-ups? in a network of innovation are more closely … analyzed. The examinations show, on the one hand, that contact to innovation networks has a positive effect on the decision …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

This article aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test whether firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less likely to be innovative … Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic count data estimation models applying General …

This note expounds the abstract fundamentals of the appropriability problem, re-assessing insights from three classic … implications of appropriability for society at large, Teece's main concern was with practical questions of business strategy and … perspective, can be seen as filling a significant gap in the previous theoretical discussion of appropriability. …

supplier and buyer market concentration, and appropriability conditions on the innovative behavior of suppliers within the … German automobile industry. The data set contains firms from all size classes and measures of innovation input as well as … innovation output. It can be shown that a) innovation and R&D-employment intensity will decline (increase) in buyer concentration …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

The highly competitive and mature food industry has long been process innovation-oriented while largely neglecting … product/technological innovation. However, recent innovation debates have raised two issues. First, imitations of product … innovations likely underestimate the value of innovation in this industry; second, exaggerations of new product development …

and innovation networks. On grounds of the reflections on firms' innovation activities and technological opportunities …, the influence of network-membership (among other aspects) on the innovation behavior of new firms and incumbent firms is … of network-membership on the innovation activities of start-up firms. A secondary target of start-ups is also to gain …