Innovation activities in high technology industries provide considerable challenges for technology and innovation … innovation-related firm characteristics. The paper confirms a substitutive relationship between acquisitions and own research … geographical origin of the firm matter for acquisition behaviour. -- Acquisition ; innovation ; high technology ; quantitative …

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on Ramp;D, patenting and market value in the … find evidence that both strategic patenting and Ramp;D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software …

In this paper, we examine firm innovation and its link to firm growth. Instead of using the conventional … conceptualization and operationalization of innovation in terms of the R&D budget, we use a more elaborate 12-dimensional … conceptualization, which takes into account also the non-technological aspects of innovation. The 12-dimensional operationalization …

Taking as a basis for discussion the Schumpeter's innovation theory, this paper analyses the relationship between …