This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in an emerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affect inventive activities developed abroad. We look...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for the monitoring of new technology introduction in a B2B environment. We focus on B2B environments, i.e. on projects where a new technological solution is implemented (and often jointly developed) with a client being either a company or an...

The importance of intellectual property (IP) rights for commercializing innovation is well established. Moreover, separate streams of literature have shown a positive relationship between IP rights and both product licensing and third-party (especially VC) financing. However, since raising...

Die Durchsetzung von Innovationen verlangt das Engagement von Promotoren. Arbeitsteilung zwischen Macht-, Prozess- und Fachpromotoren ist dabei am erfolgreichsten. Diese Erkenntnisse sind vielfach gesichert. Offen ist aber bisher, wie diese Promotorenstrukturen entstehen und sich während des...

Benchmarking of innovation processes requires the reliable assessment of nondocumented organizational characteristics. Based on key informant literature we discuss the difficulties of gaining reliable information from respondents and identify potential sources for heterogeneous perceptions among...

Daß sich auch die Betriebswirtschaft mit dem Management von technologischen Neuerungen im Bereich von Forschung und Entwicklung beschäftigt, erscheint aus zwei Gründen sinnvoll: zum einen berichten eine Vielzahl von empirischen Studien, daß sich nur zwischen 3 % und 25 % der innovativen...