empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a population of service organizations, in particular the German insurance …

manufacturing and service industries, the internationalization-innovation link in the context of service firms has rarely been … service firms. Despite the increasing importance of the service sector and the discrepancies in the natures of the … examined empirically on a large sample. Based on the results of the logistic regressions using the 2006 Korean Innovation …

The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe … and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the … shift in innovation power by concentrating on factors within the rising powers, such as their investment in high …

innovation. However, a small, but growing revisionist literature contends that the enthusiasm for modularity has gone too far …

<em>Innovation and performance in the long run: the case of Europe</em> - In this article we present the results of a … recent work on the long-term mechanisms of innovation and performance in Europe which contributes to the European innovation … scoreboard. Data from different waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) have been used as an instrument for understanding …

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …

strategies carried out in order to fill in the innovation gap in the service economy (i.e. the difference between what the …This chapter aims to provide a review of the literature on innovation in services and to focus on the analytical … traditional innovation indicators are capable of capturing, and the reality of innovation activities undertaken in a given economy …

technological change, and then examine theory and empirical evidence on invention, innovation, and diffusion and the related …