foster R&D spending and innovation, leading to a persistent increase in aggregate productivity and output. In contrast … rate of return to investment in innovation between 20% and 75%. …

strive to institutionalize internal culture of innovation. This concept postulates a creation of various organizational …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

- 2010) matched with information on sector innovation derived from the Community Innovation Survey, we look at the impact of … innovation across small and medium-large firms, both on the average wages paid by firms and on the degree of within-firm wage …

machinery industry. Nothing has received as much attention as innovation, which has been pinpointed as the fundamental driving … force for economic growth and welfare as well as a key factor in competitiveness. Therefore, innovation growth is seen as a … mechanism to influence economic growth, and therefore firms capable of increasing their innovation potential benefit from …

perspectives of entrepreneurship and innovation. However, despite many common touching grounds these strands of research are rarely … conceptually intertwined. Research on the role of the academia within the innovation process of knowledge-based economies highlight …, entrepreneurial experience, re-innovation processes etc.) is added by yet others within the network. The presented concept describes …

In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different …

Firm innovation capacity depends not only on internal capabilities, but also on external expertise and knowledge … acquired through cooperation. This paper analyzes direct and indirect effect of R&D cooperation on the innovation of Italian … firms. Using a multivariate probit model to account for the complementarity of four different types of innovation activity …