Customer co-creation during the innovation process has recently been suggested to be a major source for firms …' competitive advantage. Hereby, customers actively engage in a firm's innovation process and take over innovation activities … relevance, novelty, and costs, and then their impact on various innovation outcomes is investigated. Next, the study examines …

Firm innovation capacity depends not only on internal capabilities, but also on external expertise and knowledge … acquired through cooperation. This paper analyzes direct and indirect effect of R&D cooperation on the innovation of Italian … firms. Using a multivariate probit model to account for the complementarity of four different types of innovation activity …

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 …

The 'doing-using-interacting mode' of innovation (DUI) is considered an important component of innovative activity. It … describes informal innovative activities and complements the 'science-technology-innovation mode' (STI) which is based on … research and development. A common demarcation criterion between both modes of innovation is the relevance of experiencebased …

subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg's test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

A key concept in the economics of innovation is the 'public good' nature of knowledge. This generates a tension between …

capabilities in product innovation. This research delves into communication's role as a go-between for big data analytics and … impact on product innovation performance and information-sharing dynamics. Furthermore, it is discerned that information …-sharing exerts a substantial and affirmative influence on the capacity for product innovation. Additionally, it is established that …