R&D subsidies on the knowledge-sourcing process increase firms’ innovation outcomes, thus making this policy … intervention effective in promoting innovation. By using panel data from Spanish manufacturing firms, this article presents … Spain also favor more firm innovation, measured by patent applications and new product launches. It is also documented that …

We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely … effective for promoting innovation in the medical device industry at the regional level. …

Purpose–The authors attempt to answer the basic questions: How is imitation tied to innovation? This question is … addressed in the context of China’s innovation system in the 2000s where Chinese industrial firms simultaneously implement … innovation and imitation strategies in their new product developments. Design/methodology/approach–The authors first build on …

new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination … processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the complexity of these dynamic processes. With innovation, however, strong … anchored in equilibrium and homogeneity. This text introduces SKIN (Simulation Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks), an …