Obtaining indicators on innovation activities of firms has been a challenge in economic research for a long time. The … throughputs in the innovation process. Output measurement of innovation has strongly been relying on survey data such as the … Community Innovation Survey (CIS), but suffers from several short-comings typical to sample surveys, including incomplete …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

This paper studies the differences in the R&D and innovation behaviour of high-growth firms for 16 EU countries. The … results confirm that R&D and innovation are important characteristics for high-growth firms in countries close to the …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by …

firms using data derived from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey. When firms are asked whether or not they have introduced … other institutions. If an innovative firm has no formal collaboration arrangements and the innovation has not been done … mainly by the firm, then diffusion of informal knowledge is considered to be the main driver of the innovation. The idea is …

firms using data derived from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey. When firms are asked whether or not they have introduced … other institutions. If an innovative firm has no formal collaboration arrangements and the innovation has not been done … mainly by the firm, then diffusion of informal knowledge is considered to be the main driver of the innovation. The idea is …

This paper raises the question of the relationship between innovation and productivity conditional to ICT use and R …&D activities during the innovation process. Concretely, we wonder whether R&D activities and ICT use considered as innovation … these innovation outputs conditional to ICT use and R&D lead to a higher level of labour productivity. In this adaptation of …

Generally speaking, the support of technological innovation has been viewed in terms of input such as R&D and … instruments such as legal protection. The literature on innovation highlights the interactive nature of the innovation process in … strategies such as marketing and organisational innovation, a role which may differ according to whether the firm is involved in …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

Non-R&D innovation is a common economic phenomenon, though R&D has been the central focus of policy making and … scholarly research in the field of innovation. An analysis of the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-3) results for …. In contrast, firms that engage in product innovation, find clients, universities and research institutions an important …