The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a … order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the Knowledge Flow Percolation Model center, human beings are seen … importance of knowledge flows in innovation …

Understanding the long-term patterns of innovation in energy technologies is crucial to informing public policy … planning in the context of climate change. This paper analyzes which of two common models of innovation over the technology … life-cycle – the product-process innovation shift observed for mass-produced goods or the system-component shift observed …

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 …

In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of … technological change. Using unique data from the German Innovation Survey we find that while high speed of technological change … tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation …

In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of … technological change. Using unique data from the German Innovation Survey we find that while high speed of technological change … tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation …

product-based R&D collaborations in Germany. The results of a Cox regression reveal that prior technological knowledge is …

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from … Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference …-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our results provide novel evidence that foreign-acquired firms actively …

This paper analyses the determinants of spatial distribution of foreign technological activity across 96 German regions … (1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent … applications. The descriptive analysis shows that foreign technological activity more than doubled during the observation period …