understand the challenges being faced by the automotive assemblers, as well as parts and components manufacturers, the innovation …

, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The results suggest … to the relevant technological frontier seem to benefit more from trading activities in tfirms of innovation than the …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany …-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main ques-tions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of … social capital likely to be more in-novative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This …