innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

development of these countries. This paper aims to show the differences in innovation patterns among manufacturing firms operating … into account innovation inputs, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with business … partners, innovation outputs and international competitiveness. The sample consisted of 358 firms operating in both low and …

Given the economic, societal and environmental relevance of innovation, this paper contrasts various models of … innovation, compares how innovation is understood in mainstream economics and evolutionary economics of innovation and juxtaposes … states. innovation performance, it argues that the science-push model of innovation is still highly influential in the EC STI …

Open innovation has developed over several decades from a small pool of innovation pioneers, mostly active in high …-tech industries, to be widely discussed and implemented in innovation strategy. The primary objective of the Open Innovation Session … innovation for high-tech companies in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic. The methodology adopted for this paper …

innovation that illustrates an endogenous process of internal competition. This often political and contentious process can have …

important role in funding innovation, and they have benefitted from substantial public support and subsidy. While venture … capital is almost synonymous with innovation, the ability of VC markets to catalyze innovations is often overstated. This … Article examines the innovation limitations of VC and the role of law and policy in enhancing its innovative capacity. It …

innovation performance (IP). In addition, existing studies examine the moderating effect of S&T employees management (STEM) on … the relationship between S&T employees input (STEI) and innovation performance (IP). We obtained 324 valid samples through …&T employees management (STEM) exerted a positively significant effect on innovation performance. However, the moderating effect of …

This article compares the relationship between patent quality and patent value in discrete and cumulative innovation … link between patent quality and value in discrete innovation, this link is much weaker in cumulative innovation …. Using factor analysis and a set of various commonly used patent quality indicators including claims, citations and family …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …