In this survey, we examine the operations of innovation processes within industrial districts by exploring the ways in … embeddedness on innovation. We also consider the effect of forms of organization within industrial districts at various stages of … product and process life, and we examine the negative aspects of embeddedness for innovation. We conclude with a discussion of …

/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …

upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and …. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …

an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

Currently, technological parks constitute the most organisational and conceptually developed type of innovation centres …. They are also formed in the catching-up countries. However, one should consider whether the stimulation of innovation in … determine, using the probit modelling, the direction and strength of technological parks on the innovation activity. The study …