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 …

In this paper, a model of product innovation is developed that endogenizes the degree of cooperation. Two opposing …

&D race while maintaining the collusive equilibrium in a repeated-game framework. Innovation under competitive R&D creates … inter-firm asymmetries, which destabilizes the collusive equilibrium. Innovation sharing through cooperative R&D preserves … the collusion stability but also raises social welfare. Interestingly, a welfare improvement is less likely if innovation …

high growth firms, which are key in innovation and entrepreneurship policies. …

facilities that include external sources of information into the innovation process. This trend towards an open innovation … in external R&D allow fast adaptations within the innovation process in case of changing market trends or radical … innovations. Furthermore, opening up the innovation process simplifies an integration of required know-how from another industry …

Information and knowledge are important prerequisites for innovation activity in firms. One important means of … acquiring coplementary knowledge are innovation networks. Depending on their absortive capacity and knowledge base, firms … differences between manufacturing firms and business-related service firms. Using data from a regional innovation survey carried …