The discussion on regional innovation systems emphasizes the duality of local and global links. While the former enable … diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical analysis of 18 German regional innovation networks highlights the importance of …

&D race while maintaining the collusive equilibrium in a repeated-game framework. Innovation under competitive R&D creates … inter-firm asymmetries, which destabilizes the collusive equilibrium. Innovation sharing through cooperative R&D preserves … the collusion stability but also raises social welfare. Interestingly, a welfare improvement is less likely if innovation …

In this paper, a model of product innovation is developed that endogenizes the degree of cooperation. Two opposing …

In Germany there is considerably less innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) than in large companies …. The government's arrangements for promoting innovation provide only a limited corrective here, not least because they are … on R&D. If the EU's target of raising innovation intensity to 3 percent of GDP is to be achieved, however, policymakers …

Universities and research institutes are increasingly expected to contribute to society by creating innovation from the … an international symposium titled "Fulfilling the Promise of Technology Transfer: Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of … studies to promote future creation of innovation by universities and research institutes worldwide, including information on …

The main focus of this paper is on the examination of the role and importance of innovation networks in the decision to … innovation intensity, the implications resulting from the involvement of ?start-ups? in a network of innovation are more closely … analyzed. The examinations show, on the one hand, that contact to innovation networks has a positive effect on the decision …

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of universities in the innovation process. Against the background of … theoretical considerations about the interrelation of innovation and the adaptation of external resources, the effects of … university-based (knowledge) resources - together with other exogenous variables - on the innovation input and output of firms in …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …