„Stakeholder-Governance-Theorie (SGT)“ sein. Empirisch substanziiert wird dieses Forschungskonzept im Kontext des Human Development …

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 …

The research project KompNet 2011 - Factors determining the success of regional innovation networks, funded by the … partners in innovation projects, nevertheless in-house development is the most important form of creating innovative products … intensity, are very important for the innovation success. Tacit and codified transfer channels are equally important for the …

organizational environmental innovation that may lead to improved environmental performance. While the paper provides a descriptive … analysis of the determinants for EMS-adoption and incentives that may trigger environmental innovation activities within German … the process of complex firm decisions on innovation and environmental performance. While the relevant literature on these …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

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 …

innovation regions, which reflect the knowledge spatial activities, is becoming relevant. The spatial econometric estimation of a … production function, which is based on endegenous growth theory and innovation economics, yields out a sigificant regression …, that innovation regions are smaller than federal states, a 22-cluster-solution would be appropriate. …

characteristics of gatekeepers within regional innovation systems by applying social network analysis based on patent data for four …