Until the twenty one century, innovation and ideas have been a valuable asset to accelerate the process of … technological catch-up, sustain productivity growth and competitiveness. To determine where innovation is standing up, countries and … organizations need to adapt innovation capacity to overcome their economies' defeats for the purpose of boosting the growth and …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

Stimulating innovation is one of the pressing policy challenges facing many countries in the world today. The paper … small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Poland were subjected to a survey. The data collected revealed the innovation … types of SMEs in Poland and external financial factors influencing innovation the most. The results show external factors …

innovation success in establishments without R&D but not in establishments with R&D. This supports the hypothesis that rivals …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …