services industry. To this end we analyze the innovation strategies in several service sectors in Poland in 2008 and examine … their relationship to productivity. Our results show that service firms differ considerably in their innovation strategies …

The research was motivated by the importance of inter-firm collaboration within service innovation. Inter …-operative innovation activities following the approach of loosely-coupled and institutional networks. The empirical results show different …

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … service firms in 2004-2009. Firms that introduced new services or marketing techniques experienced stronger growth. Process …

with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …

The authors use the insights from strategy research and innovation studies to address two principal questions regarding … Innovation Survey for Polish service firms. They propose a set of indicators reflecting four principal fields of technology …

and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software … has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information- and Communication Technology (ICT … social software applications triggers innovation. Thereby, it refers to a knowledge production function in which social …

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 …

The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and … universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define search strategies for … that search strategies driven by science, suppliers and the product market will contribute differently to innovation …