knowledge institutes in Finland and the Netherlands. Three questions – relevant for innovation policies - constitute the central … Innovation Surveys we find that foreign firms in the Netherlands are less likely to co-operate with domestic public knowledge … partners. This raises the issue whether Finnish innovation policies with a strong focus on R&D co-operation provide incentives …

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …

organisational innovation to a larger extent than the less flexible firms and consequently are more inclined to employ new work …

link between the universities and industrial innovation, and the role of different search strategies in influencing the …

This paper concerns the operation of competition in the presence of a high rate of innovation and increasing returns … this investment yields only a normal return. Thus, competition, increasing returns and innovation may co-exist. …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994–2002. It turns out that innovation behaviour is … results show that past innovation experience is an important determinant for manufacturing as well as for service sector firms …

This paper reviews the first results from a large Danish survey on organisational innovation within the private … have undertaken organisational innovation during the period of 1993-95, i.e. innovative Y-firms and non-innovative N … flexibility and combine technical and organisational innovation in order to meet this challenge. However, 1/3 of the N …