innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest … Germany as a research field. While most current evidence on this topic emerges from Canada, we complements and add to this …

—promotes innovation. Firms with PhD CEOs produce more exploratory patents with greater novelty, generality and originality. PhD CEOs …

various types of innovation activities to position themselves against their competitors. Ambidexterity and strategic agility …, firms should either favor an exploration strategy of innovation processes to come up with radically new knowledge, products …

Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …

provinces in the People's Republic of China, we find that credit market development enhances firms' product innovation …

Previous studies on the effect of corporate governance on firm innovation shows mixed outcomes, while some reveal … innovation with special interest in indigenous oil firms in Nigeria, a Sub-Saharan country. The study adopted a cross sectional …, board commitment and board involvement have positive and statistically significant effects on firm innovation measures of …

Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy …

We study the implications of services trade for firm innovation. Using a quasi-experimental shift-share design, we find …’ innovation efficiency by mitigating decreasing economies of scale in in-house innovation efforts. As a result, firms become more … likely to outsource innovation efforts as they become more innovative, whereas the prevalence of offshoring depends on its …

the Regional Innovation Systems approach it is argued that cities provide crucial innovation advantages working as … infrastructures on the innovation probability of KIS firms. However, the effects vary with the type of innovation pursued, thus … demonstrating a high complexity of local relations conducive to KIS firm innovation. …