The importance of users as a source of information for company innovation activity was raised in the 1980s by von … Hippel. Today, a concept of a similar basis is known and developed in Europe under the name of User-Driven Innovation (UDI …; NORDEN, 2006). Due to the growing significance of users as a source of information for innovation activities it is important …

explaining the why of a certain innovation instead of another. We empirically test this theory in the telecommunication switches … industry. We consider innovation as a new alignment of needs and opportunities, where markets and technology are not the …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of … mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question how negative effects of mergers on innovation should be taken into … account in merger policy. Although we can show in our study that in one third of all challenged mergers also innovation …