This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

supposed to be drivers for innovation performance. Using representative firm-level data of 4,121 German firms, this paper … analyzes how the adoption of Industry 4.0 impacts innovation performance. The analysis is based on bivariate regression models … innovations and has a positive impact on the intensity of product innovation in the service sector compared to manufacturing firms …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies.Radical innovation occurs when technology from two distinct industrial clusters are … crossed, resulting in an entirely new product. In contrast, sustaining innovation usually involves adding technological …

incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal … vertically organized sectors that define innovation activeness in the economy (for example, mechanical engineering), the …

This paper investigates whether technological innovation and exports affect the size and productivity of manufacturing … particularly important for the issue under examination. Regression analyses show a positive relation among innovation, exports, and … size and productivity, while causality exercises show that innovation and exports imply higher productivity and higher firm …

The paper investigated the drivers of innovation in the manufacturing, industry and services sectors of 20 countries in … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and found that (i) secondary education matters for value-added creation or innovation but the … access to finance by firms, especially SMEs, on innovation or value-added generation appears to be decreasing with the …