and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

"Monitoring innovation activities of innovation process participants" is a project which has been carried out by the … Higher School of Economics (HSE) for several years to promote monitoring and analysis of innovation issues in general, and on … empirical knowledge about the nature and types of interaction between various actors of the national innovation system. In 2009 …

This paper summarises some of the content and conclusions of a new book which discusses the innovation, design and …) phones – from their original inventions to the present. It discusses common patterns of innovation, how environmental … environment. It concludes with trends and sustainability challenges for future consumer product design and innovation …

consequential environmental threats. This study suggests complementary hypotheses for technology analysis and innovation management … technology hypothesis, induced-innovation hypothesis, learning by doing hypothesis, learning via diffusion hypothesis … proposes in some cases, basic models to operationalize these hypotheses for studies of applied economics of innovation. Overall …

Firm innovation capacity depends not only on internal capabilities, but also on external expertise and knowledge … acquired through cooperation. This paper analyzes direct and indirect effect of R&D cooperation on the innovation of Italian … firms. Using a multivariate probit model to account for the complementarity of four different types of innovation activity …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

of the contributions of different innovation linkages to innovation deserves more attention. Are the different innovation … linkages equally complementary to research inputs in fostering innovation? This paper addresses the contributions of different … innovation linkages to innovation, across two different measures of innovation. We find that a broader index of innovation …

solution to this problem is innovation, which is a complex phenomenon that needs to be understood and measured in every company …. The aim of this paper is to present a measurement tool to analyse the extent of innovation. The authors have divided the … complex phenomenon of innovation in seven types of innovation according to their influence in the company, for each type of …

The holistic approach to innovation includes establishing a wide range of interactions among different actors which … implies development and expansion of methods, approaches and tools for improving the innovation. This paper analyzes the … impact of customers and users on promoting innovation of companies. In this context, the authors advocate different methods …