While it is clear that the ability of firms to introduce new products or processes is crucially affected by their … choice of innovation partners, the geographical dimension of these partnerships has until fairly recently attracted … relatively little attention. Yet, the factors which drive firms to collaborate with far away agents or, by contrast, to …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 … thickness, and extent of knowledge spillovers. Using a dynamic Probit model, we found that, in general, those firms located in …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither … spatial and functional dimension of cooperation. Generic results for the German region of Lower Bavaria show that firms do not …

Innovation is widely considered as the main determinant of long-term economic growth. Despite this consensus, it is … critical examination of innovation indicators and measures of the economic impact of innovation. All available innovation … indicators fall short of measuring innovation and its economic effect. However, the future could be more promising as enterprises …

. Among the plant-specific characteristics, it is mainly plant size, exporting behaviour and R&D / innovation activities that …

, health, wealth fare and among them, the spatial sciences and economic geography - competition among territorial units (cities … firms¢ competition. Secondly, one of the basic aspects regarding territorial competitiveness is the comparison between the … way that the firms and the territories behave mainly in case of bad economic performance and even bankruptcy. Within this …

. Further to EFA analysis, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) has been implemented for two groups of firms: the ones having … intensively the EFA components but also to assess which policies are perceived by firms as the most determinant in terms of …

This paper provides survey evidence on firms’ subjective uncertainty about future sales growth from a new … representative panel data set of the German manufacturing sector. The main finding is that uncertainty reflects change: firms report … more subjective uncertainty after either high or low growth realizations. In the cross section of firms, subjective …

increase in sorting of high-skilled (low-skilled) workers into high-paying (low-paying) firms and thereby triggers a rise in … low-educated workers performing routine and codifiable tasks are less likely to move to high paying service firms than …