less innovation activity. In this study we investigate the innovation activity of 436 German manufacturing firms differing … management are detrimental to firm innovation, at the same time family control has a positive impact on innovation activities …

This paper investigates the possible presence of three problems in regional innovation systems (RIS): intermediation …

investigating the impact of R&D collaboration networks on the innovation performance of firms and regions has developed over the …Innovation is the result of an interactive process. Knowledge-intensive interactions among different partners are …-intensive interactions have a rather positive impact on the performance of firms and regions. There is also evidence that the employed …

, frequently marked by dynamism, often by uncertainty and risk, sometimes even hostility, depends, crucially, on the innovation … activity. Innovation activity, formation of innovation potential is definitely influenced by motivational politics and the … reward system. The article reflects on the evolution of innovative activity, formation of innovation potential, motivational …

innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … 'soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures … effects on innovation and economic performance. …

this paper is to test the relationship between SDO practice and innovation performance of a large number of Australian …, which reveals a significant and positive relationship between SDO and innovation performance. The implications of the … opportunity to improve innovation performance. …

of SMEs to accept new innovative methods that will lead to higher performance of humans and machines for increased … regression technique. The hypothesis tested found that technological change has effect on organizational performance of small and … recorded in the SMEs performance is accounted for by technological change. This result is statistically significant because the …

organizations in the context of Albania. We investigate the market orientation relation with innovation and firm performance by …The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of market orientation as an outer source of innovation for … analyzing a sample of 99 companies operating in Albania. The relationships and the impact of market orientation on innovation …

performance of SMEs in Ghana. Innovation partially mediates between customer orientation and performance. Innovation fully … mediates between inter-functional orientations and performance whereas innovation has no mediation between competitor …The study assessed the impact of market orientation on performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs); the …