This paper explores the drivers of inter-firm R&D collaborations in a particular type of innovation network, the … technological districts created in Italy under a specific public policy to promote innovation. The empirical analysis used an … important to enhance the innovation capabilities of small firms and their performance. …

Customer co-creation during the innovation process has recently been suggested to be a major source for firms …' competitive advantage. Hereby, customers actively engage in a firm's innovation process and take over innovation activities … relevance, novelty, and costs, and then their impact on various innovation outcomes is investigated. Next, the study examines …

This paper reviews existing innovation metrics at the company-level and country-level, and proposes a system of … signposts of innovation to help executives with a guiding framework and data resources for evaluating and planning innovation … of innovation activities that today's businesses undertake. We also incorporate input from The Conference Board members …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

The purpose of this paper is to define innovation and to proffer evidence of its existence through the use of … statistical method and mathematical modeling. Innovation is defined by the confidence interval of the normal probability … probability distribution density curve ( α = 0.025) is an area of focus for innovation analysis. The lower tail of the curve: −α …

This paper focusses on the definition of the word ‘innovation’ as used in scholarly manuscripts (books and articles …) about the Innovation. The research was done in 1988, and reported in the Dutch Language in a Research Paper of the … Innovation. This population had been classified according to eight variables that were created from the keywords found in the …

innovation. Based on a contingency notion, the relation between research and development (R&D) projects’ properties and the way …

Understanding the long-term patterns of innovation in energy technologies is crucial to informing public policy … planning in the context of climate change. This paper analyzes which of two common models of innovation over the technology … life-cycle – the product-process innovation shift observed for mass-produced goods or the system-component shift observed …

Open innovation is a hot topic in contemporary literature in economics and management of innovation. According to … Chesbrough (2003), the adoption of an open innovation strategy is nothing less than the key to success for businesses. This … highlights the fact that contemporary innovation is less often performed (only) in-house, through closed and fully integrated …