Purpose: Innovation, including product, process, marketing, and organizational innovation within a firm, is considered … as one of essential component for surviving and growing. These innovation activities create value and competitive … advantages for successful organizations; therefore, understanding the organization's overall innovation is the first and foremost …

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total … innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation … expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this paper we analyse the evolution of firms' innovation and R&D activities …