the Regional Innovation Systems approach it is argued that cities provide crucial innovation advantages working as … infrastructures on the innovation probability of KIS firms. However, the effects vary with the type of innovation pursued, thus … demonstrating a high complexity of local relations conducive to KIS firm innovation. …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest … Germany as a research field. While most current evidence on this topic emerges from Canada, we complements and add to this …

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

This exploratory empirical study compares the determinants of innovation in manufacturing and services through … different innovation objectives or cooperating with different types of partners appears to have detrimental effects on service … innovation. We interpret the latter results through reference to service firms' R&D and alliance management capabilities …

role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an … innovation leads to job losses and wage growth has a negative effect that is lower than in other industries. Business services …

sector level, focusing on their role in innovation processes, little attention has been paid to the knowledge workers within … the micro-level are central to understand how KIBS can drive innovation in regional and national economies by contributing …

and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software … has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information- and Communication Technology (ICT … social software applications triggers innovation. Thereby, it refers to a knowledge production function in which social …