assess the degree to which firms utilize external sources of information (customers, competitors, consultants, new employees … Innovation follow-up dataset for manufacturing, service and retail firms in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa is utilised to … innovativeness. These findings confirm the open innovation literature in that firms that open their innovation process and utilise …

-by-science. The results indicate that only parts of the DUI mode, in combination with the STI mode, can explain high innovativeness …This paper proposes a holistic approach for investigating high innovation performance in SMEs by comparing different … German regions. Invoking insights from the innovation mode concept and existing literature on regional innovation, we apply a …

Trade credit extended to suppliers in the video game industry does not serve as a commitment device for large customers … lower sales growth and less long-term debt leverage. Also, large customers don't form relationships with suppliers in this … in determining which vendors to make relationship-specific investments in. Suppliers of video games are better off …

This paper assesses the extent to which the organization of the innovation effort in firms, as well as the geographical … type of partner used, matters for the capacity of firms to benefit from product innovation. In particular, firms that … collaborate in international triple-helix-type networks involving suppliers, customers and R&D institutions extract a higher share …

für das Wachstum der ostdeutschen Unternehmen zu erhöhen, sollten Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) sowie Innovation auch …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between innovation, R&D (Research and Development), and productivity … structural model (CDM model) that describes the link between innovation output, R&D and productivity for the Thai case. Various … of process innovation and product innovation. Exporting plants, plants in the central region, and plants that are …

new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for process innovation, the final impact on labor demand is shaped by … in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of … impede them. Policies should maximize the job-creation effect of product innovation and minimize the direct labor …

Financing has been considered as a critical requirement for firm innovation projects. However, these projects are … traditional banking and venture capital firms. …

should be placed on research and development (R&D) and innovation. For this reason, the German government-which has expanded …