, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

This paper provides evidence that the effect of agglomeration externalities on survival is moderated by the start … unfold a positive influence on survival for less innovative companies, while their highly innovative counterparts do not … benefit or even suffer from spatial concentration. On the contrary, highly innovative high-tech start-ups benefit from a …

In case of a product innovation firms start producing a new product. While doing so, such a firm should decide what to … technology, increases over time. The implication is that a later innovation enables the firm to produce a better innovative … product market, the better the quality of the innovative product needs to be for the product innovation to be optimal …