The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

(expertise in IPR-based innovation management and business plans) are much less developed. In the last section, four case studies … of product and process innovation by four mining suppliers add some interesting insights to the analysis …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

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 …

Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves …, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy … eliminates useful information, suggesting that all of the observable signals about corporate innovation should be included in …

The main objective of the paper is to address the question of how to foster innovation and small firm growth under … different levels of technological turbulence, flow experience, innovation and small firm growth (i.e. market share and ROI … environments in terms of the relationships of risk taking, flow at work, innovation and small firm growth. Based on a survey among …

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 …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules with the objective to … innovation) and the benefits associated with returns to scale. We derive conditions for optimal diversity under different regimes …