- were significantly less likely to be involved in innovation (defined either as a new product or as a high-tech product). We … with the choice of a high-technology product, but not with innovation defined as new product development. Management teams … more likely to be engaged in innovation, defined either as high-tech or new production.What motivates managers to employ …

&D-oriented firms versus all others - is somewhat limited. In particular, non-R&D innovation activity should be treated as an important … engaged in non-R&D innovation grow in a less risky and costly way than R&D innovators, and that a young firm's decision … whether to engage in R&D for the purpose of innovation and growth can therefore usefully be understood as being driven by a …

firm’s network and geographic position on firm-level innovation output? We analyze the innovative performance of German … organizations (PRO). We use patent grants as dependent variable in order to measure firm-level innovation output. Empirical results … but quite interesting findings. -- Geographical co-location ; network positioning ; innovation output …

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. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … are shown to be solved by verification through entry for sale. -- acquisitions ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; start …