strengthened where spillovers also have positive effects. This conclusion is based on the supermodularity of the spillover process …

complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the …

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

complementarity or substitutability. In addition, and to our knowledge novel, we propose a measure of concordance (or proximity …This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and …

research grants than for development grants. We also find cross-scheme effects that may arise due to complementarity between …

research grants than for development grants. We also find cross-scheme effects that may arise due to complementarity between …

A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production … offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We employ propensity score matching to compare R&D and innovation activities 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 …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …