innovation success if they effectively apply human resource management tools or team work to facilitate innovation processes. …This paper investigates the impact of in-house R&D and innovation management practices on innovation success in small … innovation management tools in order to achieve innovation success. We analyse whether such a strategy can pay off. Based on data …

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 …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …

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 …

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 …

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, buy and cooperate, on firm's product innovation performance … while both buy and cooperate have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …

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 …