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 …

In this paper we report empirical evidence from a mixed methods approach to investigating the drivers of innovation in … regarding their innovation and competition experiences. Our results from both forms of evidence-gathering suggest that in a … small and isolated local market such as New Zealand, smallness in terms of firm size may not be an advantage for innovation …

(Ausbau der Infrastruktur, Sachkapitalförderung) inzwischen kaum mehr festzustellen. Forschung und Innovation sind hingegen …

The massive economic crisis 2008/09 had substantial impacts on the innovation activities of the German economy. The … loss in sales and profits resulted in a sharp decline of innovation expenditure. While capital expenditure for new products … and improved processes were cut substantially, R&D budgets basically remained unchanged. Firms with innovation and R …

Innovation is central to economic growth, as the area in which it develops takes the whole sphere of economic … measures that European countries which already apply and Romania, willing to encourage innovation. The present paper presents … innovation and also the ways of applying it within small and medium sized enterprises. …

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …

attracting increasing attention as an effective means of promoting innovation. Especially for SMEs, such collaboration provides …

results for East Germany. Given the fact that the East German innovation system is particularly driven by small and medium …

independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of …