The innovative performance of 1,200 representative firms in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and … the Slovak Republic was analyzed. The study differentiates between product innovation and three different forms of process …

Recently the emergence of more open innovation models which draw on a greater diversity of distributed knowledge … support companies in thier adoption (e.g. the EU lead market initiative, Danish User Innovation Lab duci.dk/). The rationales … for these activities are manifold. First of all, policy makers are regconising the growing relevance of open innovation …