This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …

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

aimed at estimating the innovation gap between Poland and the European Union countries on the basis of the Summary … Innovation Index (SII), which was developed by the European Commission within the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) in the … years 2010-2018. It reviewed the literature on the innovativeness of economies and the innovation gap. Descriptive analysis …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

Given the economic, societal and environmental relevance of innovation, this paper contrasts various models of … innovation, compares how innovation is understood in mainstream economics and evolutionary economics of innovation and juxtaposes … states. innovation performance, it argues that the science-push model of innovation is still highly influential in the EC STI …

To tackle the European Union's innovation system weaknesses in the commercialization of the research results, in 2009 … the European Commission (EC) has launched an open call for the creation of 2-3 Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs …), the operative level of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). KICs are innovation ecosystems made of …

Culture is deemed to be a crucial basis for innovation in various respects. The aim of this paper is to explore the … relationships between different cultural dimensions introduced by Hofstede (2001) and the capability of initiating innovation …

the Slovak Republic was analyzed. The study differentiates between product innovation and three different forms of process …