' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models show that the impact of … VET activity on innovation is indeed ambiguous. Overall, as expected, participation in initial VET has virtually no effect … on radical product innovation. However, a positive impact of training apprentices is observed in case of incremental …

innovation and product innovation using the PLS-SEM technique. The data for this study is collected from 150 managers of … adaptation are positively and significantly related to process and product innovation. Indirect and total effects show that … managers' skills, technology adaptation, process innovation, and product innovation are positively and significantly related to …

We open the black box of corporate innovation production by examining its most important input: the employees tasked …

In theory, innovation processes lie behind the evolution of national systems as they create interacting dynamics among … technologies, processes, markets, raw materials or organisational forms -- innovation in a Schumpeterian sense. Shifts in energy … sources, from fossil to non-fossil sources, among organisations in the Swedish innovation system therefore call for …

, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …