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 … Germany as a research field. While most current evidence on this topic emerges from Canada, we complements and add to this …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

supposed to be drivers for innovation performance. Using representative firm-level data of 4,121 German firms, this paper … analyzes how the adoption of Industry 4.0 impacts innovation performance. The analysis is based on bivariate regression models … innovations and has a positive impact on the intensity of product innovation in the service sector compared to manufacturing firms …

and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software … has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information- and Communication Technology (ICT … social software applications triggers innovation. Thereby, it refers to a knowledge production function in which social …