The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

Using data from the Community Innovation Survey for Belgium in two consecutive periods, this paper explores the … relationship between firm-level innovation activities and the propensity to start exporting. To measure innovation, we include … indicators of both innovative effort (R&D activities) as well as innovative output (product and process innovation). Our results …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

The study aims at providing new evidence with respect to the still unresolved question, whether the innovation … identifies a set of innovation strategies (cluster analysis), whose adequacy he evaluates using the “economics of innovation” as … reference. Secondly, the author investigates the dynamics of innovation strategies to get some insights into structural change …

The study aims at providing new evidence with respect to the still unresolved question, whether the innovation … identifies a set of innovation strategies (cluster analysis), whose adequacy he evaluates using the "economics of innovation" as … reference. Secondly, the author investigates the dynamics of innovation strategies to get some insights into structural changes …

innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship … between different industrial sectors. Most cases of radical innovation involve the market commercialization of technology in …

This paper tries to account for impact from both R&D tax incentives and subsidies policies on firm innovation in China … simultaneously rather than separately, measuring firm innovation by input and output proxies, namely “R&D investment” and “number of …

This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …

Corporate innovation plays a crucial role in maintaining competitiveness and enhancing firm value. However, despite … being the world's leading manufacturing nation, the role of managerial ownership in fostering innovation within the Chinese … ownership on corporate innovation using data on patent activities from Chinese listed manufacturing firms covering the period …

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …