Our study shows empirically that the choice of resource allocation strategy affects innovation performance. A policy of … allocating resources to a broader range of innovation projects increases sales of new products, especially if these are truly … stronger for firms that allocate resources more selectively at later stages of the innovation process. Based on these results …

findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

angesichts massiv ausgeweiteter F&E Budgets in den letzten Jahren die Frage aufgekommen, inwiefern China in naher Zukunft nicht … auch zur Wissensfabrik der Welt aufsteigen könnte. Aber kann China tatsächlich auch zu einem Zentrum der globalen …

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the differences between specific motives of R&D investment in foreign locations …&D are positively correlated to innovation performance of domestic firms, whereas market-oriented and resource …

?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … financing conditions. Financial constraints affect the distribution of investment over time in a fundamental way. Following a … on Schworm?s (1980) model of optimal investment under financial constraints, we use it to test the empirical content of …

This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German … investment than non-innovative companies. The non-randomness of loan denials is controlled for with a selection equation …

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

its various socioeconomic dimensions concludes that nanotechnology is rightly viewed as a key innovation. It can be used …