The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of innovation activities and its determinants on firm performance … relationship between innovation activities and its determinants to firm performance we applied multiple regression analysis and … to our findings for each determinant and its effect on firm performance. By investigating the innovation …

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 …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …

The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation … activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen … as the main precondition of successful innovation. However, the successful transformation of R&D investment into …

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 …

embeddedness in regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on the openness of regional … innovation and knowledge development. Managers must also foster capabilities that enable the firm to effectively utilize and … compete successfully, gain profitability, and grow. Our study seeks to shed light on the innovation and knowledgeflow process …

dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … exogenous factors (Delmar, Davidsson, Gartner, 2003). In our work we assume that regional innovation performance (as a share of …