This paper provides evidence that the effect of agglomeration externalities on survival is moderated by the start-up's innovative behavior. It is shown that localization externalities are prevalent particularly in non-high-tech environments and unfold a positive influence on survival for less...

Using a sample of thirty-six major natural disasters that occurred in the United States between 1990 and 2015, we investigate the impact of natural disasters on the technological and product innovation activities of companies. We show that, overall, natural disasters have a significant effect on...

The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...

The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sometimes introduce different types of innovation simultaneously. However, the performance implications of simultaneous innovation practices remain under-researched in the literature. Therefore, this paper explores the combined use of six types of...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of entrepreneurial capability and innovation capability on sustainable organization performance, as well as to explore the role of innovation capability as a mediator in the relationship between entrepreneurial capability and sustainable...

Differences in the growth of firms remain a major topic in economics and strategy research. In this paper we investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point of view and then we analyze the relationship between...

This study explores the relationship between energy and material efficiency innovations (EMEIs) and innovation strategies employed by manufacturing firms to develop their process innovations. Firms may mainly develop process innovations in-house, let them mainly develop by other enterprises or...

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation activity of Spanish manufacturing firms, reporting...