successful service innovation. The authors examine which unique resources and capabilities product-centric firms should develop … and deploy to pursue service innovation.Design/methodology/approach– Data collected from several research projects support … service innovation from different starting points and sequences, depending on the context.Research limitations …

demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper … the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the German manufacturing, and … additionally for SMEs. To this end firms' innovation decisions are considered. The decision to innovate in one period is modelled …

Innovation and export decisions are closely interlinked. Both activities contribute to firm performance in various ways …: exporting provides a wider market to sell products, while innovation provides new and better products to supply those markets … and/or more efficient ways to reduce costs. The connection of innovation and exporting is of major interest to developing …

strategies. Robotics competitions and prizes provide for an important incentive to innovation. Patents are used to exclude third … analyzed the developments of robotics innovation. This paper closes this gap by analyzing how innovation in robotics is taking … located in the US, Europe, but increasingly also in the Republic of Korea and China. The robotics innovation ecosystem builds …

Firms strategically promote, foster and pursue a reputation for technological innovation. Yet, present research did not … performance to examine the influences on reputation for technological innovation. Using patent, financial and consumer data our … (citation intensity) is linked to reputation for technological innovation. Counter-intuitively, our results provide evidence …

. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …

innovation to capture R&D productivity (patents scaled by R&D) influences studies on innovative efficiency. Simulation analysis …Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves …, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy …

Using data from the Community Innovation Survey for Belgium in two consecutive periods, this paper explores the … relationship between firm-level innovation activities and the propensity to start exporting. To measure innovation, we include … indicators of both innovative effort (R&D activities) as well as innovative output (product and process innovation). Our results …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …