demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …

This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

Process innovation is an important part of firms’ innovation activities and supposed to significantly contribute to … positive returns from innovation. Measuring process innovation output at the firm level is still in its infancy, however. This … paper reports empirical evidence on measures of process innovation output that have been collected in the German part of the …

A key concept in the economics of innovation is the 'public good' nature of knowledge. This generates a tension between …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …