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 …

the structural changes that today's Korean industries are experiencing, industry's innovation system is also changing …. Innovation networks are emerging as the result of economy-wise restructuring since the financial crisis of 1997 and, though still … not a dominant force, the newly emerging innovation networks will be the main threads of industry's innovation activities …

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 …

This paper examines the bidirectional causality between innovation and internationalization in the context of …, past internationalization has a positive effect on process innovation, but past process innovation does not have a … process innovation and the internationalization decision. Our results, however, do not show dynamic interdependence between …

in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2010. The authors find past and path … dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D effort in both types of innovation. Nevertheless, for product innovation, the … process innovation. …

In this article, we provide first insights on how open innovation is connected to the imitation of intellectual … property (IP). Analyzing survey data concerning the open innovation orientation along the innovation value chain of 3956 German … firms, we show that companies engaged in open innovation are more exposed to imitation. The breadth and depth of open …