Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation … group affiliation is particularly important for innovation in industries that rely more on external funding and in groups … knowledge spillovers are not the main driver of innovation in business groups because firms affiliated with the same group do …

The role of globalisation and innovation in fostering continuous improvement for both the privateand public sector has … received increased emphasis within the last decade. The activities of microenterprisesin stimulating and adoption of innovation …, both as a practice and its nurturing within anyeconomy plays a key part in this respect. Innovation from any large …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

industry's history, such firms proved most adept at systemic innovation, as in the case of television. But, as in the cases of …

This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …

Technological innovation, knowledge diffusion and employee entrepreneurship and mobility are closely related phenomena … employees solve affects innovation performance and employees’ choices about entrepreneurship and mobility. In essay 1 I examine … innovation performance. In essay 2 I develop a model connecting attributes of technological tasks with the probability of idea …