significantly positive changes to the firm's post-merger innovation performance. The effects of M&A on innovation performance are in … capabilities at acquiring firms prior to a merger. -- Mergers & Acquisitions ; Innovation Performance ; Telecommunications … M&A and Innovation a major means of today's competitive strategy development, this paper examines the innovation …

Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each … unfortunate as both processes - the process of innovation and the process of mergers and acquisitions - are intimately connected …. The impact of mergers on innovation can only be rigorously assessed, if the converse direction of influence - mergers …

innovation. For the empirical analysis a unique firm-level data set is constructed that combines balance sheet data and an M … association with post-merger patenting is mainly driven by patents invented in the countries of the acquirers headquarter and its …