Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports …. Whether firms invest in process or product innovation matters: on average, the number of process innovations declines more … strongly than the number of product innovations. In addition, firms that initially pursue process innovation strategies and …

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and thus complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) based on research … DUI mode and how they should be measured. Based upon 81 in-depth interviews with German SMEs and regional innovation …

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) which is based on … research and development. A common demarcation criterion between both modes of innovation is the relevance of experiencebased …

investigate the nexus between the use of non-standard work and innovation performance using data for 18 manufacturing and 23 … arrangements and the introduction of both product and process innovation. Furthermore, we show that the harmful consequences of the … spread of non-standard work on firms' product innovation propensity are more pronounced in high-tech sectors. …

and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German …

innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …

for policy advice, this paper empirically identifies DUI mode drivers of SME innovation. For the first time, a large set … predicting SME innovation depends on both the region and the type of innovation output. SME innovation in lagging regions is … suggest that R&D capacity is not the only main driver of SME innovation, especially in lagging regions, and therefore provide …

proximity is of particular importance when the decision for external innovation collaboration partners has to be made. This …

Using the 2007 Mannheim innovation survey, we investigate whether family firms are more financially constrained than … other firms and how this affects both innovation input as well as innovation outcomes such as market and firm novelties or … are more likely to be constrained and have, on average, lower innovation input. Surprisingly, however, this doesnot reduce …