We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

Die Innovationsfähigkeit der hoch entwickelten Industrieländer ist ihre wichtigste Quelle für Wohlstand und Wachstum. Das DIW Berlin hat in diesem Jahr zum dritten Mal im Auftrag der Deutschen Telekom Stiftung und des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) einen Gesamtindikator für...

Zur Beurteilung der Innovationsfähigkeit eines Landes ist nicht nur seine aktuelle Position im internationalen Vergleich interessant, sondern auch die Entwicklung über längere Zeiträume hinweg. Um die mittelfristige Dynamik des deutschen Innovationssystems im internationalen Vergleich zu...

Um die Bestimmungsgründe, Ausbreitungsmechanismen und Wirkungen von Umweltinnovationen zu erklären, wurde bisher stark auf einzelnen Fallstudien abgestellt. Um die Forschung auf eine neue und breitere Grundlage zu stellen, führt das ifo Institut derzeit eine Studie zu Entstehung, Diffusion...

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at regional and national level. In the competitive environment companies are obliged to produce more rapidly, more effectively and more efficiently in new product development which is a result of research and development (R&D) activities....

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

We examine the effectiveness of government direct funding of firm innovation through R&D grants on firms future R&D investment, employment, and performance. Using a novel proprietary dataset of 1,825 R&D grants awarded to Irish domiciled firms for the period 2003-2012, we first show that grant...

One increasingly important driver for innovation is sustainability, a concept which aims to integrate ecological and social dimensions into conventional management. Whereas prior research on sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) has often dealt with innovation processes in large companies,...

Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment it is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It is widely accepted that innovation can be better achieved by...