institutes, other temporal patterns of collaboration do not significantly improve innovation performance. Implications of these …

The concept of business models and consequently business model innovation has its foundation in corporate practice … organization as well as across its business ecosystem. As with Business Model, the Business Model Innovation literature is not well … developed. This paper focuses on the effects that can be achieved through business model innovation, in particular …

promoting innovation. We consider that these knowledge externalities depend on firms’ internal efforts and strategies, since … (Technological Innovation Panel). Results of a two Tobit models with random effects, confirm our hypotheses. First, firms with … easily incorporate existing knowledge in the park and improve their product innovation. Secondly, results also seem to …

This paper estimates the effect of persistence of innovation on employment in Spanish manufacturing firms during the … period 1990–2008. Using GMM-system estimations, we study the importance of persistence of product and process innovation on … employment growth according to the size of the firms. The results support that process innovation shows a positive effect on …

Community Innovation Survey between 2004 and 2010, we try to determine: (1) those factors that cause firms to become YICs … innovation capacity and cooperation in R&D projects enhance the probability of becoming a YIC. Nevertheless, factors such as …

overcoming financial barriers to innovation. By exploiting firm-specific proxies of relationship lending I document a highly …

In recent years, there has been an increase in empirical and theoretical work that addresses the role of innovation as … one of the main sources of firm growth. The purpose of this special issue is to strengthen the role played by innovation … applied papers observe a positive link between innovation and firm growth, the complexity of R&D activities, together with the …

innovation output plays in shaping that relationship. We apply a vector auto-regression model to Finnish firm-level data and … express the need for further research on innovation dynamics and growth of SMEs analysing the interactions between different … innovation activities. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) an aggregate economy of N>2 regions and (iii) an aggregate economy of N=2 …