ebusiness technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When … innovation and adoption require large set-up costs, the leader favors quick adoption by the follower. The follower prefers either …This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new …

more important when there is an increase in network effects. A consequence is higher innovation incentives under an … reducing bidding competition, thereby also reducing acquisition prices and innovation incentives. …

Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each … unfortunate as both processes - the process of innovation and the process of mergers and acquisitions - are intimately connected …. The impact of mergers on innovation can only be rigorously assessed, if the converse direction of influence - mergers …

also show a positive impact on process innovation intensity. These results do not only emerge for the short-run of two …

The research project „KompNet 2011 – Sucess factors of regional innovation networks“, funded by the Federal Ministry of … Education and Research (BMBF), examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely … strategic alignment. The innovation activities focus clearly on product innovation instead of process innovation. Furthermore …

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i … Germany, this is the first paper empirically analyzing whether both types of enterprise software foster innovation in the … between sector specific enterprise software and innovation activity while customized enterprise software is possibly related …

In this paper, we analyze the relationships between different types of innovation and collaboration, given the varying … success of regional innovation networks', which examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME … linkages determines innovation orientation and innovative behavior. That means: Innovation performance could be positively …

Since the seminal works of Schumpeter (1937) and Arrow (1962), economists have recognised that the innovation process … govern the appropriability of economic returns from innovation In this paper we focus on one particular aspect of the … relationship between market structure and innovation, that is the effect of regulation on the incentives to innovate of a regulated …

from the SME sector, inter alia, through increasing innovation. An analysis of desk research strategies and regulations in …