The main focus of this paper is on the examination of the role and importance of innovation networks in the decision to … innovation intensity, the implications resulting from the involvement of ?start-ups? in a network of innovation are more closely … analyzed. The examinations show, on the one hand, that contact to innovation networks has a positive effect on the decision …

firm’s network and geographic position on firm-level innovation output? We analyze the innovative performance of German … organizations (PRO). We use patent grants as dependent variable in order to measure firm-level innovation output. Empirical results … but quite interesting findings. -- Geographical co-location ; network positioning ; innovation output …

collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …

has allegedly reduced innovation by refusing to deal with the plaintiffs. We note that claims of reduced innovation are … problematic, particularly in dynamic markets, because economic theory does not often allow a confident prediction of what would … cases should be required to support their claims with a plausible theory and evidence, and that the burden should be greater …

The book investigates the meaning, nature and consequences of innovation interactions between small and medium … linking KIBS' and SMEs' innovation capacities in Germany and France. A particular emphasis is given to the question of the …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

R&D cooperation only considered process innovation, the model presented here also takes product innovation into account …. It is shown that the optimal R&D investment has virtually the same structure for both process and product innovation. The …