Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

about future performance and standard measures of corporate innovation. We begin by developing a career concern model where … probability of failure, are more likely to pursue innovation, and that this effect is larger in more competitive industries. We …

The U.S. promotes and produces innovation through a wide range of interdependent institutions, ranging from the grant …" innovation is and in part on how amenable certain types of innovation are to certain forms of institutional provision. To put it … more concretely, (1) innovation is a public good that acts as an input for producing a wide range of dependent goods …

The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …

influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively … the tools of knowledge management in function of the kind of technical innovation it wants to proceed …

Background: Firms increasingly depend on external actors for the process of generating innovation. Interaction with …. Objectives: Although open innovation has received more attention, still less is known about its effect on organizational … innovation. To fill this gap, this study investigates the impact of various external knowledge sources on the willingness of …

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) which is based on … research and development. A common demarcation criterion between both modes of innovation is the relevance of experiencebased …

how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge … techniques on product and process innovation. More specifically, if a firm wants to reduce costs, it is more valuable to invest … important for a firm to carefully select the techniques of knowledge management depending on the goals in its innovation …