client-side innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle arising from the prior … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The … innovation. For product innovation we find a hump-shape. …

(KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently … KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. One main finding holds that although regional growth has a … negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This result …

(KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently … KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. One main finding holds that although regional growth has a … negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This result …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress …

The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … (KIBS) into manufacturing. Referring to the vertically integrated sectors of an economy allows innovative knowledge, which … is transferred directly and indirectly from KIBS to manufacturing in an embodied way, to be measured. Its impact on …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …