Management control systems can hinder innovation. However, recent theoretical and empirical work indicates that these …

In this paper, we explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports, using a panel of … Spanish manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results -based on non-parametric tests- suggest that firm innovation status is … critical in explaining the positive export-productivity association documented in prior research. For the sample of small …

study involving 60 SMEs throughout Europe. The main practical output of the project was the Social Innovation model, yet a …An exploration of the fit or space between CSR and innovation is presented, based on the RESPONSE project, a 15-month … conceptual understanding of CSR and innovation is best advanced through the three hypotheses that constitute the conclusions of …

, innovation. Endogenous growth theory has long suggested that human capital lead to greater innovation and, through technology … innovation and diffusion, contribute to economic growth. However, there is little evidence on the role of human capital in … innovation. Using the Chinese provincial data from 1997 to 2006, we show that workers’ tertiary education is significantly and …

4 Background This paper summarises a grant proposal to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA). The aim of … knowledge workers are key-persons in the innovation system, and second that we know surprisingly little about what is important … and industry labs belong to the innovation system. Second, a commercial environment, entrepreneurs and companies are …